158 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bromiis. 



coloured anthers. Both valves of the corolla acute, cloven ; the 

 outer one lanceolate, angular, smooth or downy, more or less 

 compressed, with two strong distant ribs, and 1 or 2 short slight 

 ones, at each side. yJw7i from just below the membranous point, 

 stout and straight. Styles rather distant. Nectary acute^ deeply 

 cloven, tumid at the base. 



8. B. asper. Hairy Wood Brome-grass. 



Panicle drooping, branched. Spikelets linear-oblong. Flo- 

 rets about eight, rather distant, lanceolate, compressed, 

 downy. Awns shorter than the glumes. Leaves uni- 

 form ; lower ones hairy. 



B. asper. Linn. Siippl. 41 1 . Willd. v. 1 . 432. Ft. Br. 133. Engl 

 Bat. V. 17. ^.1172. Tr. of Linn. Soc. f.4.293. Mart. Rust. t. 126 = 

 Knapp t. 85. Hook. Scot. 42. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 360. Host 

 Grain, v. 1.6. t. 7. Ehrh. Phyt. 42. 



B. ramosus. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 13. J 02 ; hut not Mant. 34. 

 Cullum 40. 



B. nemoralis. Huds.51. 



B. nemorosus. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 117. 



B. hirsutus. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t.8. 



B. montanus. Pollich v.\. 116. Retz. Obs.fasc. 2. 7- 



Poa n. 44. Gmel. Sib. v. 1. 110. t. 21 ; 'from the author. 



Gramen avenaceum dumetorum, panicula sparsa. Rail Syn. 415. 



G. avenaceum dumetorum paniculatum majus hirsutum. Moris, 

 i;. 3.213. sect. 8. t.7.f27. 



In moist woods and hedges. 



Annual, or biennial. July, August. 



Root of many stout, pale, spreading fibres. Stem erect, from 4 to 

 6 feet high, round, leafy ; smooth in the upper part. Leaves 

 spreading, deep green, lanceolate, pointed, harsh, many-ribbed, 

 a foot long, and | of an inch broad, fringed at the edges, espe- 

 cially towards the base, with coarse rigid hairs, variously di- 

 rected. Sheaths ribbed, mostly very rough, with defliexed hairs. 

 Stipula short, obtuse. Panicle a foot long, widely spreading ; 

 the branches seldom more than 2 or 3 together, very rough, the 

 larger ones alternately subdivided. Spikelets obliquely pendu- 

 lous, about an inch long, compressed. Calyx-valves very un- 

 equal, pointed, compressed j the outer smallest, single-ribbed ; 

 inner with 3 ribs, hairy towards the margin. Outer valve of the 

 corolla resembling the inner one of the calyx, hairy in like man- 

 ner at the margin, but with 2 slight intermediate smooth ribs ; 

 the keel extended into a nearly straight, stout, rough awn, 

 shorter than the glume, scarcely distinguishable at the origin 

 from its very slender cloven point ; inner valve concave, shorter, 

 but not much narrower, obtuse, the ribs finely and rather closely 

 fringed, AW^ deeply cloven. .S7?//e.s very short. Stigmas densely 



