316 GRAMINE^. [Lolium. 



the calyx indistinctly 3-nerved, obtuse, of many awnless florets ; 

 root fibrous, annual. Br. Fl. ed. B. p. 56. E. FL v. i. p. 166. 

 E. Bot. t. 22 1 . — Catapodium, Link. Lindl. 



Sandy sea-shores. Sandymount, Howth, &c. and on the northern 

 and southern coasts. Fl. June, July. ©. — Stiff and wiry, branching 

 from the very base, three to four inches high. Leaves linear, rigid, 

 plane. Spikelets more or less distant, secund ; lower ones sometimes 

 compound. Ext. valve of the corolla broadly ovate, concave. 



26. Brachy podium. Beauv. False Brome-grass. 



Spikelets alternate, remote, cylindrical-compressed. Calyx 

 2-valved, manj'-flowered ; valves opposite, transverse, un- 

 equal. Corolla 2-valved, the valves lanceolate ; ext. one 

 generally awned at the extremity, int. retuse. — Named 

 from [ipaxvs, short, and ttovs, afoot; from the sessile or 

 nearly sessile spikelets. — These sessile spikelets and the ter- 

 minal awn distinguish this genus from Bromus, where the 

 British plants of this genus had been placed. 



Triandria. Digynia. 



1. B. sylvaticum, Beauv. Slender False Brome-grass. Spike 

 drooping; spikelets nearly cylindrical, secund, hairy; awns 

 longer than the florets. Lindl. Syn. p. 279. Br. Fl. ed. 3. 

 p. 55. — Festuca sylvatica, E. Fl. v. i. ;;. 149. — Bromus sylvaticus, 

 Foll.—E. Bot. t.'729. 



Woods and hedges, common. Fl. July. %. — Two feet high. 

 Leaves broadly linear-lanceolate, very hairy. Calyx-valves unequal, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, much nerved. Ext. valve of corolla linear-lan- 

 ceolate, much nerved, scabrous, rarely hairy. Int. one truncated, 

 margins ciliated. 



2. B. pinnatum, Beauv. Heath False Brome-grass. Spike 

 ei^ect ; spikelets nearly cylindrical, distichous, hairy ; awns 

 shorter than the florets. Lindl. Syn. p. 297. Br. Fl. ed. 3. 

 p. 57. — Festuca pinnata, E. Fl. v. i. p. 150. — Bromus pinn. 

 Linn. — E. Bot. t. 730. 



Found in open fields and heathy places, on chalk, in England. Fl. 

 Juty. 1£. — Mr. J. Drumrnond states that he found it in hedges near 

 Kinsale, and Mr. 1'radburry is said to have found it in similar situ- 

 ations in the Queen's County. I have now, however, reason to think 

 that the latter mistook B. sylvaticum for it, and I have no specimen 

 from the former station. 



27. Lolium. Linn. Darnel. 



Calyx of one valve, solitary, many-flowered. Corolla of two 

 valves ; ext. awnless or with an awn below the extremity. — 

 Name, "quasi dolium, hokiov, quod dolosum sit vel adul- 

 teriniun. Fit enim. e comiptis Tritici ac Hordei scminibus." 



