Drs Smiru’s Objervations on the Britifh Species of Bromus, 283 
This fpecies is not very common. It may eafily be known by its 
broad oval compreffed fpikes, each confifting of not more than 10 
or 12 cylindrical rather remote florets, almoft always fmooth, and 
‘drooping as they ripen from the length of their wpmerelies, which 
are for mes moft part ree fimple.. 
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2. Bromus indie. 
Downy Rye Brome-grafs. 
B. panicula patente; pedunculis fubfimplicibus, fpiculis ovato- ° 
lanceolatis compreffis cy apa flofculis fubimbricatis 
teretiufoulis, 2°. 
Bromus multiflorus. Weigel Obf. w #.-1. f 1, Gmel. Sift. Nat. 
Linn, 188. 7 
B. fecalinus. Leers 36.411. f0 2. Lightf. 1086. Linn. Fi. Suec. 
ed. 2. g6. var. 2. 
Feftuca graminea, glumis hirfutis. Bewh. Theatr. 149. Scheuch=. 
Agr. 250. t. 5. f. 9. : 
In arvis rarits. Dil. inR. on 4i4. Fl. Tali, 
Near Norwich. Mj lifs Hancock. _ Between SE Nlgt and New- 
haven, 4 
Habitus preecedentis Culus “tae Folia ivterfor five nuday 
fupra ad margines fubpilofa; fuperiora fubtus brevi lanugine 
pubefcentia, fupra pilofa; omnia margine fcabra. Vagina glabra. 
Stipula breviflima, lacera, vix pilofa, Panicula ut-in priore. 
Spicule unciales, ovato-lanceolate, compreffo-planz, flofculis 12 
ad 16, imbricatis, demtim fubremotis.. G/ama omnes plerumque 
niolliffimé pubefcentes, rarits glabra. 
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