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1. Briza. maximal L. L(ir(jp Qiin]:itui-(,rass. Glab- 

 rous annual, with erect stems; leaves flat, rough, with a long 

 ligule; panicle l-sided, with filiform branches bearing only 

 1-2 drooping spikelets ; spikelets 

 15-20 mm. (^-| in.) long, at first 

 oval and silvery-white, then 

 oblong and golden, containing 

 9-17 flowers; flowering glume 

 downv, almost circular, 7-nerved. 



plains and hills. — 

 -Mediterranean re- 



Adelaide 

 Sept. - Dec. 

 gion. 



2. B. minor, L. Lesser 

 Qiifikiuii - r/r(/.s.^. Cllalirous an- 

 nual ; ligule long, lanceolate ; 

 panicle compound. .spreading- 

 erect, with hairlike branches and 

 pedicels bearing numerous tri- 

 angular, pale-green spikelets 3-5 

 mm. long, 4-8-flowered ; outer 

 glumes a tittle longer than the 

 contiguous flowers. 



Pasture and scrubland. 

 Nov. — Europe; Asia. 



-Sept. 



Pis'-- 



Briza maxima. 



29. Fe8ti;c.\, L. 



Spikelets compres.sed laterally, several-flowered; outer 

 glumes 2, shorter than the flowers, lower 1-nerved, upper 

 3-nerved ; flowering glume narrow, rounded on back, awned 

 or not. 



Outer glumes unequal ; flowering glume 

 awned. 

 Panicle long, arched : stem leafy to the 



panicle F. Myuros 1 



Panicle short, erect; stem naked under 



the panicle F. bromoiilrs 2 



Outer glumes almost equal ; flowering 



glume mucronate ; stiff grass F. rigida 3 



1. Festuca Myuros, L. liaVs-tail Fescue. Glab- 

 rous annual, with slendei' .stems leafy up to the base 

 of the panicle; leave;* narrow, cylindrical - inrolled ; 

 ligule short : panicle 10-30 cm. (4-12 in.) long, spike- 

 like, at least near the summit, sometimes compound, 

 more or less 1-sided and irsually arched ; spikelets 

 compressed, with 4-6 divergent flowers; outer glumes 

 unequal, the lower about one-thiid as long as "^^ ' 



the 



upper; flowering glume cylindrical, glabrous, tapering 



