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57. GKAMIXE^. 



upper male. stalked ; outer 

 glumes 2, equal, boatshaped, 

 keeled, downy, enclosing the 

 flowers, the upper one 3-nerved, 

 murronate ; flowering glumes 

 rather smaller, the male one with 

 a short, dorsal awn. 



Moist places in settled dis- 

 tricts. — Oct. - Mar. — Europe; 

 temperate Asia. 



20. LoLiUM, L. 



Spikelets sessile in the notches 

 of the axis and appre-ssed to it 

 by one of their sides (backs of 

 the glumes), forming a loose, 

 compressed, 2-sided spike; outer 

 glume 1, except in the terminal 

 spikolet. stiff, convex, but not 

 keeled, several-nerved; flowering 

 glume convex, 5-nerved ; grain 

 oblong, channeled on the inner 

 face, adhering to the palea. 



Flowers oblong, swollen in fruit ; 

 thick, ovoid-oblong; annuals. 

 Outer glume equalling or e.xceed 



large spikclet ; stem stout 



Outer glume shorter than the 



spikelet ; stem slender 



Flowers lanceolate, not swollen in 



grain linear-oblong; perennial 



1. Lolium 



Holcus lanatus. 



in 



grain 

 g the 



small 

 fruit ; 



L. 

 L. 



temiilcntxtm 1 

 remotuin 2 



Lolium temulentum. 



L. lierenne 3 



temulentum, 



Ij. Darnel. Glabrous annual, vary- 

 ing much in size; spike long, 

 with a thick, stiff, zigzag axis; 

 spikelets usually large, 3-9- 

 flowered, broad-topped in fruit; 

 outer glume equalling or longer 

 than the floAvers; flowering 

 glume with a long or short awn 

 Ik^Iow the summit, or awnless. 



Roadsides, pasture, and cultiva- 

 tion. Oct. -Jan.- — Europe; tem- 

 perate Asia. The seed is re- 

 puted poisonous, producing a 

 form of drunkenness (hence the 

 specific name). 1'his grass is be- 

 lieved to be the "tares" (ziza- 

 nion ) of Matt. xiii. 25. 



2. L. remotum, Schrank. 

 Annual : .stem and axis of spike 

 slender; spikelets rather distant, 



