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the inner valve of the corolla, being loosely invested on 

 the opposite side with the outer valve. 

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

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

 nate spikelets. 



1. h. perenne. Perennial Darnel. Rye-grass. 



Corolla very slightly awned. Spikelets longer than the 

 calyx. Florets lanceolate. 



L. perenne. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 22 WiUd. v.\.46]. FL Br. 1 48. Engl, 



Bot. V 5. ^.315. Rel Rndh. 13./. Hook. Lond.fasc. \. t. 18. 



Scot. 45. Knopp t. 100. Mart. Rust. t.4. Graves Br. Gr. t \ 1.5. 



Slnd. 105. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 397. Host Gram. v. 1.20. t 2.3. 



Schreb. Gram. v. 2. 79. f. 37. Leers 47. t.\2. f. 1. Ft. Dan. 



t. 747. Ehrh. Calam. 94. 

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

 L. nibrum. Ger. Em. 78. f. 

 Gramen loliaceum, angustiore folio et spica. Bauh. Theafr. 128./. 



Rail Sipi. 395. Sdieucfiz. Agr. 25. Moris. v.?j. 182. sect.S. 



t.2.f.2. 



j3. Lolium tenue. Linn. Sp. PI. 122. M'illd. v. 1 . 4G2. 



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



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



angiistissinia. ScheucJiz. Agr. 28. 

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

 Gramen loliaceum paniculatum. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 395. 

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

 $. G. loliaceum, spica lata, e plurimis spicis, dnplici versu dense 



dispositis, constante. Scheuchz. Agr.2d. t. 1. f.7 , D. Prodr 16. 



t.2. 

 G. loliaceum, spicis br.vioribus et latioribus, compressis. Moris. 



as above. 



In meadows, pastures, and waste ground, common. 



y and S found occasionally near Norwich. 



Perennial. June. 



Root of a few simple fibres. Stems several, a foot high, more or 

 less, round, smooth, rigid, leafy, with purplish tumid joints, the 

 lowermost of which are bent. Leaves dark green, linear, pointed, 

 flat, smooth, striated. Sheaths compressed, striated, smooth. 

 Stipula sliort, entire, acutely auricled at each side. Spike nearly 

 upright, various in luxuriance, with a smooth conlmon stalk. 

 Spikelets numerous, alternate, erect ; usually many-flowered. 

 Outer valve of the corolla linear-lanceolate, keeled, acute, gene- 

 rally with a short au-n, just below the cloven tip, scarcely dis- 

 cernible, and frequently wanting. Sfi/les very short. Seed 

 linear. 



