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1. B. sylvat'icum, Beauv. (Fig. 201.) slender False Brome-grass. 

 Spike drooping ; spikelets mostly turned to one side, hairy ; awn 

 slender, longer than the florets. 



Lindley, Synopsis, p. 297. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 57. — 

 Bro'mus sylvat'icus, Engli.sh Botany, t. 729. — Festu'ca sylvat'ica, Eng- 

 lish Flora, vol. i. p. 149. — Hort. Gram. Woburn. p. 374. 



Root fibrous. Plant tufted. Stem erect, from one to three feet high, 

 round, smooth and shining, slender, leafy, more or less hairy, particu- 

 larly about the joints. Leaves broadly linear, flat and spreading, 

 with a strong midrib and several slender lateral ones, rough, and 

 hairy, of a dark bright green. Sheaths short, close, striated, some- 

 what keeled, smooth and hairy. Liyula obtuse, torn, and hairy. In- 

 fioreicence a drooping, somewhat racemose spike. Spikelets nearly 

 cylindrical, alternate, and placed transversely with the waved rachis, 

 elevated on short downy footstalks. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, nu- 

 merously striated, more or less hairy, and a narrow membranous mar- 

 gin. Florets numerous. Glumelles unequal : outer lanceolate, the 

 keel terminating in a slender, rough awn, longer than the floret, having 

 about six lateral ribs, rough, sometimes hairy ; inner valve obtuse, 

 roughish, and with two lateral ciliated ribs. Stigmas short, feathery. 

 Fruit loose, furrowed. ♦ 



Habitat. — In dry woods and hedges. Not uncommon in England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland. 



Perennial; flowering in July. 



2. B. pinna'tum, Beauv. (Fig. 202.) Heath False Brome-grass. 

 Spike erect; spikelets two- ranked; awn slender, shorter than the 

 floret. 



Lindley, Synopsis, p. 297. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 57. — 

 Bro'mus pinna' lus, Linn. English Botany, t. 730. — Festu'ca pinna' ta, 

 English Flora, vol. i. p. 150. — Hort. Gram. Woburn. p. 375. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, roixnd, smooth, hard, shining, leafy, from 

 one to three feet high. Leaves narrow, linear, long, more or less rigid 

 by the inflexed margins, smooth, or more or less hairy. Sheaths long, 

 close, striated, smooth, or rough with deflexed hairs, especially the 

 lower ones. Inflorescence an erect, somewhat racemose spike. Sjnke- 

 lets linear, numerously flowered, each elevated on a short, sometimes 

 rather long, angular, downy footstalk, attached to the notched, an- 

 gular, waved, roughish rachis; sometimes there are two inserted at 

 a notch, and the footstalk of the lower spikelet, occasionally the 

 two or three lower ones, have a pale, cartilaginous, lanceolate brac- 

 lea. G/ttmes unequal, lanceolate, ribbed, and, as well as the florets, 

 quite smooth or downy. Glumelles unequal : the outer lanceolate, 

 acute, with a rough awn, slender and shorter than itself, or scarcely 

 any ; inner valve obtuse or notched, with two lateral ciliated ribs. 

 Stigmas feathery. Fruit furrowed, loose. 



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