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GRAMINE.^ 



pale green or purplish, long-stalked after flowering. — Sandy 

 shores, Channel Islands. — Fl. June — August. Annual. 



6. B. sterilis (Barren Brome). — Stem 1 — 2 feet high ; leaves 

 hairy; panicle 6 — 16 in. long, very lax, drooping, with very long 

 branches; spikelets with their awns more than 2 in. long, 6 — 10- 



br6mus stj^rilis {Barren Brome). 



flowered ; flowering glume rough on the back, distinctly 7-nerved, 

 with a straight awn longer than itself. — Fields and waste places. — 

 Fl. June — August. Annual. 



42, Serrafalcus. — Annual or perennial grasses, allied to 

 Bromus, but with the leaf-sheath split less than half-way down ; 

 the lower empty glume 5-veined, the upper 7 — 9-veined ; the flower 



