302) Dr. Smitx’s Odfervations on the Britifh Species of Bromus. 
Radix perennis, fibrofa, fubrepens. Cu/mus fefquipedalis vel bipe- 
dalis, ere€tus, fimplex, teres, foliofus, glaberrimus, apice reCtus 
et rigens, parimque attenuatus. Fo/ia ereétiufcula, lanceolata, 
acuminata, rigidula, ftriata, nervofa, fcabra, fepits nuda, rarils 
fupra pilofa. Vagine ftrie, {triate, glaberrimz. Sv/pula brevis, 
obtufa, ciliata. Spica fimplex, ereéta, longitudine varia, rachi 
fubflexuosa, ftriata, angulis fcabré, hinc complanata. Spicule 
6 ad 10, alternz, feffiles, diftiche nec fecundz, erectx, lineari- 
lanceolate, pubefcentes. G/ume calycine parim inequales, 
lanceolate vel fubovatz, fubariftatez, multinervofe, margineque 
precipué hirte. Ficfewli 6 ad 12, vel etiam plures, arété imbri- 
cati, fubcylindrici, apicem versis precipué nervofi atque hirti. 
Arifla terminalis, glumis plerbmque brevior, quanddque etiam 
breviffima, fubulata, fcabra. G/uma interior retufa, fetis ere€ctis 
ciliata ut in praecedente. . 
This has. been united, by many Botanifts, with the laft, to which 
it is certainly nearly allied; but there are feveral points of difference 
which feem to keep them diftinét. Thefe are the ereét diftichous 
fpike, the firmer habit, lefs hairy leaves, and fhort awns of 
B. pinuatus. 
XXIV. Some 
