154 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bromus. 



according to Mr. Sinclair, its crop of herbage is small and of 

 little value. 



4. B. racejnosus. Smooth Brome-grass. 



Panicle nearly erect, spreading, slightly branched. Spike- 

 lets ovate-oblong, naked. Florets imbricated, depressed, 

 ribbed. Awns as long as the glumes. Leaves some- 

 what downy. 



B. racemosus. Linn. Sp. PL 1 14. TViUd. v. 1 . 436. Fl. Br. 128. 

 Engl. Bot. V. ]5.t.] 079. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 286. Knapp t. 78. 

 Hook. Scot. 4 1 . Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 352. 



B. pratensis. Ehrh. Cahtm. 1 16. Engl. Bot. 1984, at the bottom. 

 Comp. 19. 



B. arvensis. Knapp t. 82. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 18. 5. Engl. Bot. 

 V. 13. t. 920, excluding the synonyms. Sincl. 55. 



Festuca avenacea, spicis strigosioribiis, e glumis glabris compactis. 

 Raii Syn. 414. Buddie's Herbarium. 



Gramen avenaceum pratense, gluma tenuiore glabra. Moris, v. 3. 

 213. sect. 8. t.7.f. 19. BobarVs Herbarium. Dill, in Raii Syn. 

 414. 



G. avenaceum hirsutum annuum, panicula ampliore, magisque 

 sparsa, locustis crassioribus glabris et aristatis. Till. Pis. 74. 

 SherarcVs Herb, from the author. 



G. loliaceum alpinum, spica exili, rarioribus locustis. Pouted. 

 Comp. 46 . Herb. Sherard. 



In meadows and pastures. 



At Holkham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Earsham, Norfolk. Mr. Wood- 

 ward. Boyton, Wilts. Mr. Lambert. Also at Battersea, and 

 in various other parts of Britain. 



Annual, or Biennial. June. 



A very distinct species from the preceding, more slender in habit, 

 and much less downy, not at all soft to the touch. The panicle 

 is generally simple, its branches longer, and less divided, rough 

 with minute bristles, not downy. Spikelets larger, more turgid, 

 rough to the touch, but naked and shining. Outer valve of the 

 corolla marked with 2 green ribs at each side, which are scarcely 

 at all prominent, nor are there furrows between them as in 

 B. mollis. No one who has seen the plants together can mistake 

 them. The florets vary in number from 5 to 10. Authentic spe- 

 cimens, and Professor Schrader's accurate inquiries, have ena- 

 bled me to correct the synonyms of this species, and of B. ar- 

 vensis hereafter described. Much of the mass of error, which had 

 always enveloped this genus, was by similar means cleared away 

 in the 4th vol. of the Linnaean Society's Transactions ; but the 

 confusion among German authors, who had in vain undertaken 

 its particular illustration, could be set right by a consummate 

 botanist of that country only. 



