seBalinus, 
86 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
BROMUS. 
Cal. 2-valved.  Spikets, oblong, cylindrical, 
2-rowed: awn beneath the point. 
B. Panicle nodding: fpikets egg-fhaped, flatted: 
hufks naked; feeds diftin&, awns awl-fhaped, 
fhorter than the bloffom, not quite ftraight. 
It grows in corn fields, and in meadows near 
the fea fhore. Alongfide the Royal canal, be- 
tween Dublin and Blancher’s-town—on the lands 
of Santry—in fandy meadows between Clontarf 
ard Howth, county of Dublin. Barrack and 
Brick-fields, on the eftate of the Rt. Hon. John 
Fofter, Collon, county of Louth. On the banks 
of the Grand canal, near to where it joins the 
Shannon, Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Catalogue of 
rare Plants. ; 
This is a tall-growing grafs, producing ftems, 
leaves, and feeds in abundance. ‘The feeds are 
large, and muft be very nutritive; and I pre- 
fume, if mixed with other grafles when made 
into hay, would be very acceptable to cattle. It 
being an annual grafs, it would not anfwer very 
well in meadow; moreover, if introduced by 
mixture when laying down a meadow, there 
would but very few plants of it appear the fol- 
lowing 
