ISO TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Hordeum. 



finally coating the seed ; inner as long, but narrower and flat, 

 with a bristle at its base externally, probably the rudiment of a 

 secondy/ore^ A grass of no agricultural use. 



2. a, pratciise. Meadovv Barley. 



I^ateral flowers imperfect, with shorter awns. All the calyx- 

 valves bristle-shaped and rough. 



H. pratense. Huds.56. Fl. BrA56. Engl Bot. v. 6. 409. Ret. 



Rudb. 12./. I. Mart. Rust. t. 108. Knajop t.XOb. Hook. Scot. 



A6. Sincl.203. Schrad. Uerm. v. ] . 405. Ehrh. Calam. 57 . 

 H. nodosum. Linn. Sp. PL 12G. Willd. v. \. 474, excluding Ray's 



synomjm. 

 H. murinum /3 Ibid. 



H. secalinum. IVilld. v. 1. 475. Host Gram. v. 1. 26. t. 33. 

 H. maritimum. El. Dan. t. 630. 

 H. n. 1538. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 248. 

 Gramen secalinum. Ger. Em. 29. '^. Raii Syn. 392. 

 G. secalinum pratense elatius. Moris, v. 3. 179. sect. 8. t. 2.f. 6. 

 G. spicatum secalinum minus. ScheiicJiz. Agr. 17. Vaill. Par. 83, 



t.\7.f.6. 



In meadows and pastures, especially such as are rather moist. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous ; becoming bulbous in barren ground occasionally 

 overflowed. Whole plant more slender than either of our other 

 species. Stem more upright, and twice as tall ; naked and 

 smooth at the top. Leaves narrow, roughish, sometimes hairy, 

 as well as their sheaths, which are close, not swelling, with a 

 scarcely perceptible stipula. Spike 2 inches long, often tinged 

 with brown or purple. All the calyx-valves very narrow, bristle- 

 like, equal, rough at the back. La.terei\Jlowers stalked, with or 

 without stamens, but always destitute o^ pistils. Outer valve of 

 the corolla in all the /lowers ovate, awned ; the awn shortest in 

 the lateral ones. Germen in the middle flower only, turbinate. 

 Stigmas feathery along the upper side. 



Thejlorets in all my British specimens are smooth, but in Ehrhart's, 

 from Hanover, they are partly besprinkled with soft hairs. This 

 is indeed a most trifling variety, as Professor Schrader consi- 

 ders it. 



3. H. maritimum. Sea Barley. Squirrel-tail-grass. 



Lateral flowers imperfect, with shorter awns ; the inner 

 valve of their calyx half-ovate. ' 



H. maritimum. With. 172. El. Br. 156. Engl. Bot. v. 17. t. 1205. 

 Knappt. 106. Hook. Lond.fasc. 1. /. 43. Scot. 46. Mart. Rust, 

 t. 44. Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 406. Fahl Symh. v. 2. 25. Host Gram. 

 V. 1. 27. t. 34. Pourret Act. Tolas. t\ 3. 320. 



