Dr. Smu'rn’s Objervatiins on the Brito Species of Bromus, 285 
& Bromus nanus.. Weigel Ob/f. 8.2. 1. f..9. . Herb, Linn. 
ri In mutis, aggeribus et pafcuis vulgaris. Fl, Junio. 
Radix fibrofa, partm® ramofay/albida, biennis. Cuxlmus erectus, 
bipedalis, fimplex; teres, ftriatus, fepitis glaber, fubindé pubefcens, 
geniculis tumidis,’quandogue hirfutis. Fo/a (ut et vaginz) 
ftriata, pilis mollibus canefcentibus villofa, margine vix fcabra.. 
Stipula acutiufcula,.lacera. Panicu/a bi- vel tri-uncialis, erecta, 
coarétata, demtim patentiufcula, decompofita ; ramis femiverti- 
cillatis, fimplicibus ra¢emofifque, Tongitudine variis, angulatis, 
pubefcentibus. Spicula erectiufcul, ovate, acute, parim com- 
preffe, flofculis® nF ad 10, arété imbricatis. Calyx e glumis 
duabus, inequalibus, ellipticis,» mucronatis, margine {cariofis, 
carinatis, villofis, 7-9 nerviis, nervis viridibus, validis, extanti- 
bus. Fofcult calyci conformes,. depreffo-concavi,. ariftis {cabris 
longitudine valvularums glume interiores tenuiflime, longéque 
_anguftiores, enervix, margine incraffato, viridi, ciliato. Semen 
ellipticum, Ag anbieell ecmects 
Nothing dan be more diftingt thah this comin Beads from the 
two already. mentioned. Its compound denfe panicle, and its 
ftrongly-ribbed, ‘depreffed,, clofely imbricated glumes, _ at once ‘dif- 
tinguith’it. ° Feiv plarits vary more as to luxutiance. 'The'B. nanus 
of Weigel, fent by. himfelf to, Linneus, is a ftarved” ‘dwarf variety, 
with few fpikes in the panicle, s it often grows on walls. Thie 
“fame is in Buddle’s herbarium. spree. 
We are certain*from the Cliffortian herbarium, now fortunately 
im Sir Jofeph Banks’s hands, that this is the only Bromus mentioned 
in the Hortus Cliffortianus, though the fynonyms there imply feveral 
is y) other. 
