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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Bromus. - 161 



Bromus arvensis. Huds. not of Link. In Ditchley Park, 



intermixed with the former, also at Earsham, near Bungay. Mr. 

 Woodward,* 9 



B. Panicle diffuse, upright but open : spikets strap-shaped, madriten'sis 



the middlemost m pairs: pedicles thickest at the 



top. 



H. ox. viii. 7. 13. — Barr. 76. 1. 



Straws 2 feet high, sleek, joints swoln. Leaves broadish, 

 soft. Panicle loose, with no great number of spikets. Spikets 

 straight, nearly upright, in threes, each of which generally on 

 a fruit-stalk, and sometimes a fourth, with mostly 2 on a fruit- 

 stalk. Awns long, upright. Linn. Panicle not branched. Calyx 

 keeled, hairy, of 10 florets. Bloss. ribbed, hairy. Awns shorter \ 



than the blossom. Bromus diandrus. Curt. 



Bromus muralis. Huds. Wall Brome-grass. On old walls 



about London and Oxford. Huds. [Severn Stoke, Worcester- 



shire. St.] 



A.May 



B. Panicle drooping, rough: spikets hairy, awned: leaves as'per. 



rough. Linn. Spikets slender, 10-flowered: sheaths 

 of the leaves hairy. Curt. 



Curt. 105-//. ox. viii. 7- %7* 



9 Panicle branches bearing from 1 to 3 spikets, very rough, 

 thickest upwards, pointing one way. Spikets from 6 to 10- 

 flowered, long, slender, nearly cylindrical. Calyx larger valve 

 ribbed ; smaller keeled. Bloss. larger valve, ribbed towards the 

 e "d. Awn y the length of the blossom. 



Bromus ramosus. Huds. ed. i. B. nemoralis ed. ii. B. hirsutus. 

 Curt. B. sjl<vaticus. Vogler. B. altissimus. Wiggers. Br. monta- 

 *«*. Pollich. Hairy-stalked Brome-grass. Woods and hedges, 

 frequent. A. June — Aug. 



?• Panicle spreading: spikets oblong: florets 3 -rowed: ster'ilis. 



calyx taper pointed. Linn. Awns very long. 



Curt.-H. ox. viii. 7. U-Leers II, 4-Mont. l-Dod. 540. 2- 

 Lob. obs. 20. i-Gtr. em. 76. 1-Park. 11 +8. 1-Ger. 69. 

 l-C. B. th. 1±6-Math. 1205-7. B. ii. 43 Q. Q-ScbeucB. 

 5. 14. 



Leaves ribbed, hairy, not very harsh. Panicle branches 

 from 4 to 6 issuing from the same point ; very long, rarely sub. 



* A coarse ^rass, disliked by cattle, as are all the Bromes. Properly 

 *escue, but has the habit of a Brome, Mr. Swayne. 



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