660 CXLIV. GRAMINES. | Briza. 
branous or scarious, very concave or inflated, unawned. rie qn 
smaller but very broad and flat. Grain obovate, concave in fron 
closed in the palea and almost vesicular glume, free from i 
small genus widely spread in its typical form over the temperate regions of the 
northern and southern hemisphere iur: as introduced weeds in some tropical coun- 
iries, but in a more general sense ede uding the South American genus Chaseols ytrum. 
oid ke pete ee tern loose and spreading, Spikelets scarcely 
1, B. minor. 
“Panicle presen Simple with few v spikelets ti in, . long ‘and at least 
4 lines broad 2. B, maxima, 
res » Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 372.—An erect annual, from 
nches rs ges 1 ft. high. Leaves rather short, flat, the ligu ula 
searious and often above 3 lines long. Panicle usually 2 to 3 in. long 
much branched and at length spreading, with numerous thick Se 
peta 2 lines long and as broad or at length broader.—Reichb. Ic. 
Germ. t. 92 . Muell. Fragm. viii. 125; B. virens, Linn. ; Nees iv 
PI. Prete: 3 ii. 107. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson and various localities in the interior, R. Brown, 
VU and EN. Lord Howes Island, Fullagar 
a. Common about Melbourne, Ballarat, etc., F. Mueller, Adamson and 
= tt pen 
Tasmania, Gunn, C. Stuart, Story and e: te 
S. Australia. Around St. Vincent’s a d Spencer's Eee F. Mueller. 
WV. Australia. Swan and Blackwood 1 Rivers, Oldfield. 
Rede read of ee origin b w fully — Ns exteatropios! 
h America and Africa, and though of. iae inteni ction in arts of A 
tuart hebes es that it is found in Mira pea ea m Tasmania. 
is not admitted i in Hooker s Flora of ; simis 
* 2. B. maxima, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i. 371.—An erect annual 
of 1 to 2 ft. Leaves flat, n a rather long ligula. Panicle almost 
pean species, not so Vias, spread as B. minor, but long since cultivated i in 
grlensf for. orname nt and now y aga da established i in a few localities in N. S. 
» C. Moore, S. Australia, F. Mueller, and W. Australia, Oldfield and others. 
96. BROMUS, Linn. 
Spikelets several-flowered, oblong or lanceolate, xp a or 
es 
drooping, in a more or less branched panicle, the rhachis o 
let articulate between the flowering glumes, nee or antes 
esa Vers empty glumes acute or fine-pointed, wned. 
