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containing a compressed spikelet of numerous two-ranked 

 Jlorets ; there is sometimes a small inner valve, in the 

 channel. Cor. of 2 unequal valves, opposite to the calyx ; 

 the outer lanceolate, or elliptical, concave, somewhat 

 keeled, acute, cloven at the point, more or less awned ; 

 the awn terminating the keel, at the cleft of the valve, 

 nearly straight, various in length, sometimes scarcely dis- 

 cernible ; inner valve elliptic-oblong, rather smaller, in- 

 flexed at the edges. Nectary of two, sometimes cloven, 

 scales. Filam. capillary, shorter than the corolla. Anth. 

 cloven at each end. Germen obtuse. Styles very short. 

 Stigmas oblong, feathery along the upper side. Seed el- 

 liptic-oblong, channelled in front, where it is united to 

 the inner valve of the corolla, being loosely invested on 

 the opposite side with the outer valve. 

 Boot fibrous, annual or perennial. Stems several, jointed, 

 leafy. Leaves flat. Spike two-ranked, of numerous al- 

 ternate spikelets. 



1. L. pereime. Perennial Darnel. Rye-grass. 



Corolla very slightly awned. Spikelets longer than the 

 calyx. Florets lanceolate. 



L. perenne. Linn. Sp. PL 122. TVUId. v. 1 . 46 1 . FZ.-Br.148. Engl. 



Bot. v. 5. #.315. Rel. Rudb. 13./. Hook. Lond.fasc. 1. t. 18. 



Scot. 45. Knapp t. 100. Mart. Rust. t. 4. Graves Br. Gr. t. 115. 



Sincl. 105. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 397. Host Gram. v. 1. 20. t. 25. 



Schreb. Gram. v. 2. 79. t. 37. Leers 47. t. 12./. I. Fl. Dan. 



t.747. Ehrh. Calam. 94. 

 L. n. 1416. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 204. 

 L. rubrum. Ger. Em. 78./. 

 Gramen loliaceurn, angustiore folio et spica. Bauh. Theatr. 128./ 



Raii Syn. 395. Scheuchz. Agr. 25. Moris, v. 3. 182. sect. 8. 



t.2.f. 2. 



(3. Lolium tenue. Linn. Sp. PI. 122. mild. v. 1. 462. 

 L. n. 1418. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 205. 



Graminis loliacei angustiore folio et spica, varietas, spica tereti, 

 angustissima. Scheuchz. Agr. 28. 



y. Lolium perenne /3. Leers as above./, -f. 



Gramen loliaceurn paniculatum. Dill, in Raii Syn. 395. 



G. loliaceurn, multiplici spicata panicula. Moris, as above. 



$. G. loliaceurn, spica lata, e plurimis spicis, duplici versu dense 



dispositis, constante. Scheuchz. Agr. 29. t.l.f. 7 3 D. Prodr. 1 6. 



t. 2. 

 G. loliaceurn, spicis brevioribus et latioribus, eompressis. Moris. 



as above. 



