Bromus. | CXLIV. GRAMINE. 661 
the 2 p rominent nerves usually seabrous-eiliate. Ovary — 
crowned by a hairy membranous appendage, the very short c 
styles more or less lateral. Grain datzened Caci to the palea gr 
often more or less to the base of the glu 
The e genus is widely dis rat pend e the temperate regions of rs globe. Of the 
three species here enumerated tw re probably introduce ed from urope, one only 
i poi gel to re bot Be y ee ee buf i is Mid i in New Zealand, and is probasi the same 
siatic 
Spikelets bed under 3 3 in. with rh awns. Flowering eure 
oblong, turgid, closely imbri 1. B. mollis, 
a: lancoo ate, flattened, l rs H in. long with the awns. 
ring glumes s narrow, loo osely im mbricate . . B. arenarius. 
ike: linet apen flattened, 2 in, long with the awns. 
,Fle ring glumes narrow, loosely imbricate — . . 8. B: sterilis. 
- B. mollis, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i. 413.—An erect grass of 1 
.to 2 fi, more or less so ftly pubescent, Leaves flat. Panicle either 
small with few erect spikerekn, or larger and at length wee Spike- 
lets oblong or lanceolate, 1 to $ in. long, not so flat a other 
species 8 ostly bout 7-nerved but the nerves rome 
more in the flowering glumes, fewer in the outer jee s, t 
An ran Teese now established in various localities in IN. S. Wales, Vic- 
toria and Tas: 
yh longer, about 7-nerved, 
i "rng on the back the awn free from a little below the scarious tip, 
: id in. long. NE australis, R. Br. Prod. 178; Nees in Pl. Preiss 
ii. 108. 
and gre in the interior to the Lach- 
B 
Port Jackson, R. Brown, yak: od 
N. S. Wales. 
lanand Darling, M+Arthur, Burkitt and others 
quarrie, C. Moore. 
Victoria. Forest Creek, F. Mueller; Melbourne, Adamson; Portland, Allitt ; 
mg! River, Gummon. 
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Muell er, Behr ; Mount Olga, 
W. Australia. Swan River, Quireid Drummond, n. xd 386, Bo [X — 
Specimens tall and veg A seams ers short and densely p pubescent ; 
Island, Preiss, n. 1828, 1839. 
Var. macrostachya. Spikelets 1 in. long, each with 16 to 20 flo Aeron Tale in the 
interior of N. S. Wales, ‘UW Arthur ; Darling River, Victorian Expedition 
