Dr. Smitu's Odbfervations on the Britifo Species of Bromus. 295 
No difficulty attends this f{pecies, except what arifes from the 
number of names that have been given it, owing to Linnzus hav- 
ing by accident called another B. ramofus; fo that this requiring a 
new name, every perfon gave one according to his fancy. It is 
eafily diftinguifhed from the preceding, to which, though no one 
has yet compared them, it is moft nearly a-kin; but its annual, or 
at moft biennial, pale {mooth root, broad uniform hairy leaves, and 
branched drooping panicle, characterize it fufficiently. Authors 
have laboured to diftinguifh it from B. giganteus of Linnzus, fome 
having moft carelefsly confidered them as the fame fpecies. In that 
however the root is perennial, the {pikes {mall, florets fewer, nearly 
ovate, fearcely carinated, their inner valve though rough not cili- 
ated, and their arifz, as Villars well obferves, terminal, for which 
two laft reafons particularly I have ventured to remove it to the 
Feftuce. 
9g. Bromus ferilis. 
Barren Brome-grafs. 
B, panicula nutante fubfimplici, flofculis lanceolatis nervofis fulcatis, 
foliis pubefcentibus. 
Bromus fterilis. Zinn. Sp. P/.113. Hudf. 50. With. 162. Relb. 46 
Sibth. 47. Curt. Lond. fafc. 1.t.9. Mart. Fi. Ruft. t. 125. 
Leers 37. t. 11. fi 4 Ger. em. 76. 
Feftuca avenacea fterilis elatior, feu Bromos Diofcoridis. Rai 
Syn. 412. 
F, graminea annua terilis, {picis dependentibus. Mori ae: Sed. 8. 
t. 7.f- Ele 
In arvis, ruderatis et fepibus vulgaris. Fl. Junio, Julio. 
Radix 
