Dr. SMitw’s Obfervations oh the Britifh Species of Bromus. 281 
more fpeedily completed my, whole tafl, in’ which fo many points 
more remain to be inveftigated. ~ 
By the above remarks, protragted ett to too great a length, 
I with to introduce a botanical hiftory of the Britith’ {pecies of 
Bromus, a tribe of on. which, when examined, fully juftifies all I 
have uk and whic ic d fcarcely have been underftood without 
it " 
a careful iavetiet tion of the old’ herbariums, the errors in authors 
being fo great and igual as could not be believed without 
fuch an inyeftigaticn. 
Cay bivalvis. Spiele oblonga, ‘difticha : arifté niaelerdhiaie? 
neds rd nek epee br ppc ach Wh. 13dshg eos 
qiQ wi ae ‘ adel suidut i bil a | 
“A authors have found a difficulty‘in® dinning this genus 
ftom Fy eftuca, and fome have united them.» The arifts being termi- 
nal in Fe ¢fluca, and not fo in Bromus, proves in moft inftanices a’ fuf- 
ficient charaéter, to which I beg leave to add, that the’ inter’ ‘glume 
of the corolla i in Bromus i is fringed with ftrotig diftane Brily hails, 
whereas ‘that. “part in Feoftuca is either’ fmoothi or finely downy. 
There are “nevertheléfs ‘difficulties athe thefe'itiarks, which I 
thal point out hereafter. | pene: peo het he 
epee . N yale oes f 1 Brciis tail Reiss | 
1109 lol tsi 29 10 tates Silks etn; 2oiysId smite 
GIGS peas? Smooth Rye Brome-graf Dini 4 
B, panicula patente; pedunculis fubfimplicibus, fpiculis ovatis com 
preflis decemfloris, flofculis diftinétis teretiufculis. 
Vou, IV, Qo Bromus 
RMU Fw) 
