292 Dr. Suitn’s Ob/ervations on the Briti/h Species. of of Bromus, 
culi, fubangulati, carinati, obfoleté nervofi, carina fcabri ; arittis 
longitudine vix glumarum, partm infra apicem membranaceum 
exortis, reétis, feabris. G/ume interiores apicem versis minuté 
pectinato-ciliata ciliis adfcendentibus, minis quam in maxima 
- parte Bromorum ‘confpicuis. Anthere crocese. Semen lineari- 
oblongum, fupra fulcatum, apice villofum. 
The fpecimen of this Bromus, that ranks firft in authority, exits 
in the Sherardian herbarium, and is thus infcribed in Sherard’s hand: 
“ Feftuca avenacea fterilis, {picis erettis, D. Bobart. Synopf. 
App. This was firft found by me, and given to Mr. Bobart. Folia 
inferiora pilis longis obfita.” 
Under thefe very words it appears in the fecond edition of 
Ray’s Synopfis; but, in the third, Dillenius has added fynonyms 
of Plukenet and Morifon, which belong to a widely different 
plant B. muralis of Hudfon, madritenfis of Linnzus, diandrus of 
Curtis, under which laft name I fhall prefently defcribe it. Mr. 
Hudfon however copies thofe fynonyms under his B. ereéius, adding, 
with a query indeed, B. racemofus of Linneus; fo that he includes 
under erectus three {pecies, and, if his variety 6 be the real arvenfs, 
even four. Other Botanifts in the time of Dillenius feem to have 
confounded B. ereéfus and diandrus; and that circumftance perhaps 
led him into the fame error. The latter fpecies in Buddle’s her- 
barium has the denomination Fefuca avenacea frerilis fpicis ereéiis, 
D. Bobart, which we have juft proved to belong to the former, 
while there are three moft diftinct graiics, one of them B. erectus 
with downy glumes, in the fame herbarium under the true fyno- 
nym of B. diandrus, as will be fhewn prefently, not one of which 
is the real diandrus. Buddle has alfo the erectus in another place, 
with-{mooth igre h, with the fynonym in Ray’s Synop/is, which 
belongs. 
