TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 143 



F. bromoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 10. mild. v. 1. 418. Fl. Br. 117. 

 Engl Bot.v. 20. t.\4\\. Knapp t.69. Rel. Rudb. 17./. 3. Hook. 

 Scot. 39. Schrad. Germ. v. I. 325. Ehrh. Calam. 6. 



Gramen paniculatum bromoides minus, paniculis aristatis, unam 

 partem spectantibus. Rail Syn.4\5. Pluk. Phyt. t. 33./. 10. 



G. bromoides, panicula heteromalla longioribus aristis donata. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 290. t. 6./. 10 ; according to specimens sent by 

 the author to Sherard, now at Oxford. 



On walls, and barren sandy ground. 



Annual ; some say biennial. June. 



A pale, smooth, slender, insignificant grass, of short duration, at 

 least after flowering. Root of many small brown fibres. Stems 

 several, 4 — 12 inches high, bent at some of the lowest joints j 

 leafy about the lower part ; naked, erect, angular, and very 

 smooth above. Leaves narrow, tapering, sometimes hairy on the 

 upper side, often involute ; the upper ones much shorter than 

 their angular, furrowed, lax sheaths. Stipula very minute. Pani- 

 cle of a few long-stalked spikelets, turned most to one side. 

 Outer valve of thecal extremely narrow, acute; inner 3-ribbed, 

 awned. Florets slender, cylindrical, each with a tapering rough 

 point, and a long upright awn ; inner valve very thin and pellu- 

 cid, roughish at the edges near the summit only, the green la- 

 teral ribs smooth. Germen elliptic-oblong. Styles scarcely any. 

 Stigmas feathery, minute. Seed oblong, deeply channelled above, 

 convex beneath, downy at the point, quite unconnected with 

 the glumes, which remain unaltered. Schrader describes the 

 flowers of this and the following with only one stamen, which 

 we have not observed in England. Mr. Sowerby has drawn 3 

 in the present species, as has Leers in the next. 



6. F. Myurus. Wall Fescue-grass. 



Panicle drooping, elongated, rather close. Florets taper- 

 ing, shorter than their awns, rough at the top. Leaves 

 awl-shaped. Stem leafy to the very summit. 



F. Myurus. Linn. Sp. PI. 109. Willd.v.\A22. Fl. Br. 118. Engl 

 Bot. v. 20. 1. 1412. Knapp t. 70. Hook. Scot. 39. Schrad. Germ, 

 v. 1. 327. Host Gram. v. 2. 66. t. 93. Leers 34. t. 3./. 5. Ehrh. 

 Calam. 15. 



F. n. 1443. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 216. 



Gramen murorum, spica longissima. Raii Syn. 415. Ger. Em. 

 29.*/. bad. 



G. avenaceum murorum, spica longissima. Moris, v. 3. 215. sect. 8. 

 t.7.f. 43. 



G. festuceum myurum, minori spica heteromalla. Barrel. Ic. t. 99. 



/. 1 . Scheuchz. Agr. 294. t. 6./. 12. 

 On walls, and barren sandy ground, frequent. 

 Annual ; according to Schrader biennial. June, July. 



