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Mab. Woods and hedges, not uncommon, Light/. Fl. July. % . 

 Two feet high. Leaves broadly linear-lanceolate, very hairy. Spike 



long. Cul, valves iniequal, lanceolato-acuminate, much nerved. 



Ext. valve of cur. linear-lanceolate, much nerved, scabrous, rarely 



hairy ; inner one truncate, margins ciliated. 



** Awn from hehnv the point of the Cor. Panicle branched. 



2. Br. secalinus {smooth Rye Brome- grass), panicle spreading, 

 peduncles but little branched, spikelets oblongo-ovate [ovate, 

 Sm.) compressed of about ten subcylindrical glabrous rather 

 remote flowers, longer than the awn. E. B. ^. 1171. (Not 

 Light/. ) 



Hab. Coast of Angus- and Fifeshire, G. Don. Clie.sh, Mr. Arnott. Fl. 

 July, Aug. G • 



Two to three feet high. Leaves somewhat hairy. Cat. and eit. valve 

 of cor. broadly ovate j int. cor. valve bifid at the point, the mar- 

 gins strongly ciliated. When the seeds ripen, the upper spikelets 

 are pendulous, and the florets exhibit more distinctly the distant 

 mode of insertion. 



3. Br. velidimis {dowiiy Bye Brome-grnss), panicle spreading, 

 peduncles but little branched, spikelets oblongo-lanceolate 

 compressed of about 12 cylindrical pubesceiit subimbricated 

 florets, awns longer than the glume (at length patent, Sckrad.). 

 Schrad. Fl. Germ. p. 349. Light f. p. 1036 {Br. secalinus, fide 

 Sm.). E. B. t. 1884 {Br. multijlurus) . 



Hab. Corn-fields, but not common. Fields behind the Dot. garden, 

 Edinb., Mr. Yalden in Lightf. Between Edinb. and Newhaven, 

 Smith in E. B. Fl. June, July. ©. 



Of this species I confess myself to know little. It is nearly allied to 

 Br. secal. ; but the awn is longer (at length patent, Schrad.), and 

 the glumes are pubescent, circumstances undoubtedly likely to vary. 

 The Br. viultiflorus of Wiegel, which Sir James Smith supposes to 

 be this, Schrader, upon the authority of Wiegel's own specimen, 

 pronounces to be Br. arvensis. So diflScult is it to be certain of 

 mere descriptions of Grasses. 



4. Br. 7nollis [soft Brome-grass), panicle erect close compound, 

 spikelets ovate subcompressed, florets imbricated depressed 

 pubescent, awn straight about as long as the giimie, leaves very 

 soft pubescent. Lightf. p. 103. E. B. 1. 1078. 



Hab. Meadows, pastures, banks, corn-fields, &c. Fl. June. ^ . 



One to two feet high. Panicle 2 — 3 inches long. Spikelets standing 

 nearly erect. Florets 5 — 10. Ext. valve of cor. convex, by no 

 means forming such cylindrical florets as in the two last species. 



5. Br. racemosus {smooth Brome-grass), panicle erect, pedun- 

 cles simple, spikelets ovate subcompressed glabrous, florets 

 imbricated depressed, awn straight about as long as the glume, 

 leaves slightly hairy. E. B. t. 1079, and /.920 {Br.pra- 

 tensis). 



Hab. Corner of a grass-field by the road near Kidrie, Glasg., rather 



