300) ©6©Dr. Sutu’s Obfervations on the Britifh Species of Bromus. 
tion of a more perfeét one is not the work of a day. Indeed the 
contemplation of them, and the certainty that in fo intricate an 
undertaking fimilar errors are fcarcely to be wholly avoided, are 
fometimes fufficient to daunt the moft ardent inveftigator, and 
make him fenfible how much he himfelf may need the correction 
and indulgence of future critics. | . 
11. Bromus /ylvaticus. 
Slender Wood Brome-grafs. 
B. fpica fimplici nutante fecunda, {piculis feffilibus teretiufculis, 
ariftis gluma longioribus, foliis pilofis. 
Bromus fylvaticus. | Pollich. V. 1. 118. Pourret Ag. Tolof. V, 3. 
308. 
B. pinnatus. Fi. Dan. +. 164. 
B. gracilis. Weigel Obf. 15.t.1.f. 11 
Feftuca fylvatica., Hud/f. ed. 1. 38. With, 158. Relh. 44. Sibth. 46. 
Lightf. 103... Mart. Fl. Ruf, t. 114. Dickf. As Sice. 
Sef. 13+ 9 | | 
F. pinnata ~. Hudf 48. 
Triticum n..1432. Hall. Hif. V. 2. 213. 
Gramen avenaceum dumetorum fpicatum. Raz Syn. 394. 
In dumetis, nemorofis, et fepibus frequens. FI. Julio, 
Radix perennis, fibrofa, cefpitofa, fufca. Culm: bipedales, erecti, 
.fimplices, teretes, foliofi, glabri, apice attenuati et inclinati. 
Folia patentia, latiufcula, acuminata, rigidiufcula, Jeté viridia, 
‘{cabra, nervofa, fubths precipué ftriata, magis vel minus pilofa. 
Vaging frie, ftriate, pilofe. Stpula brevis, obtufa, lacera. 
Spica fimplex, nutans, feré triuncialis, rachi fubflexuosa, ftriata, 
fcabra, 
