Lolium.| CXLIV. GRAMINE EX. 667 
decumbent glabrous grass of 1 to 2 ft., sometimes annual but usually 
lasting several years, Spike distichous, "from a few inches to1 ft. lon 
Spikelets at a considerable distance from Snehi other on alternate sides 
of the rhachis. we ‘glume of the lateral spikelets and 2 outer ones 
of the terminal o mpty, rigid, strongly nerved, longer than the 
others but much change than the spikelet. Flowering glumes 8 to 
ab or even more, narrow, obtuse or acute, with the keel and 2 erm 
ves prominent, sometimes produced into a very short awn. 
Eito there are sometimes several outer empty glumes. aT 
EPI 
c. Fl. Germ. t. 6; F. Muell. Fragm. vii 
Nownaturalised in sevarallocalities in IN. S. Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and 
S. Australia, F. Mueller and others 
* 2. L. temulentum, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 437.— Usually taller 
than L. jenes and always annual. Outer glume of the lateral spike- 
eri 
F ragm Vii 
Naturalised in N. S. Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and S. Australia, and 
apparently more abundantly so than Z. perenne, F. Mueller and many M nd. 
linicola, very slender with short xia spikelets the outer glume 
l 
scarcely so long as the re the awns usually rather ss ly —L. linicola, Sond. in 
Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, ed. 2. 957.—Near Adelaide, Blandowsk 
101. LEPTURUS, R. Br. 
simple spike. Outer empty glumes » one slightly overlapping the 
other on one side, or 1 only, appressed and ped, Linge cavity, r rigid 
and nerved. Flowering glume and palea shorter thin hyali 
embedded in the cavity, the axis of the spikelet peer | Katiba the 
palea into a minute point or bearing a small terminal empty gone 
Styles short. Grain free from the glume. 
E eae sng e ei species, chiefly from the Mediterranean region, with one North 
Am f the Mediterranean species pesona to the sea-coasts of — parts 
of the ‘Old World. Of the three Australian species two are common 
of the Pht ei an, the ‘third I has only been found out of Australia on the islands 
_of the Pac: 
Annuals. Outer glumes with about 5 prominent nerves. 
Axis of the: spikelet produced into a minute point or 
ristle f S 
Outer glumes of the lateral spikelets 2 209759 cuc D E proai 
