178 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Hovdeinn. 



Stipula veiy short. Spike 1 j or 2 foct long, lax, at first erect, 

 but while in flower becoming strongly bent, at an acute angle, 

 at the second or third spikelet, so as to become permanently 

 pendulous. Cali/x-valves twice the length of the last, narrow 

 and tapering, smooth, half as long again as the spikelets. Florets 

 3 or 4 3 the outer valve ribbed and downy. 

 Cultivated for many years in a garden, this grass is little changed, 

 though all the spikes are not always reflcxed. 



2. E. europcEiis, Wood Lyme-grass. 



Spike erect. Florets about two, rough, awned, as well as 

 the calyx. Leaves flat, pliant. 



E. europeeus. Unn. Mant.Sj. Willd. vA. 4/0. Fl. Br. 154. 



Engl. Bof. V. 19. ^. 1317. MWi. 170. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 402. 



Host Gram. v. 1. 22. t. 28. Elirh. Phijt. 3. 

 Hordeum sylvaticum. Huds.57. Mart. Rust. t.45. Knapp t. 107. 

 H.n. 1537. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 24S. 

 Gramen secalinum majus sylvaticum, Raii Syn. 392. 

 G. hordeaceum montanum, spica strigosiori brevius aristata. 



Scheucliz.Agr. IG, Prodr. 14. t. 1. 



In woods, thickets and hedges, on a chalky soil. 



Not rare in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, and the north of 

 England. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, tufted. Herbage of a grassy green. Stem erect, 2 

 feet high, simple, round, striated, smooth, most leafy in the 

 lower part. Leaves lanceolate, many-ribbed, flat, acute, rough 

 on both sides and at the edges. Sheaths clothed more or less 

 with deflexed hairs. Stipula very short, minutely notched. Spike 

 2 or 3 inches long, generally quite upright, close, green ; its 

 main stalk angular, furrowed, rough, zigzag. Flowers 3 together 

 at each notch. Calyx-valves awl-shaped, very smooth and even 

 at the base ; ribbed, angular, and roughish above ; each tipped 

 with a straight rough awn, half its own length. Florets often 

 solitary, never more than 2, all generally perfect. Outer valve 

 of the corolla lanceolate, ribbed, rough, especially in the upper 

 part, terminating in a long straight awn ; inner slightly cloven, 

 rough at the marginal ribs. Germen obovate, downy. Styles 

 distant, extremely short. Stigmas slender. Seed lanceolate, 

 with a furrow along the upper side, and a downy point, firmly 

 coated with both valves of the corolla. 



60. HORDEUM. Barley. 



Linn, Gen. 39. Juss. 32. Fl. Br. 155. Lam. t.A9. Gcertu. t. 81. 



Common receptacle^ or main stalk, many-flowered, jointed, 



elongated, toothed alternately at each side, the interme- 



