mollis. 
88 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Hie §opumyhé pt réEsatarirujl. 
Brumfhér fegalambuil. 
EnquisH.—Rye-like Brome-grafs. Field Brome- 
grafs. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems from 2 to 3 feet, 
upright, leafy, cylindrical, fmooth. Leaves, 
linear, fpreading, hairy above and on the mar- 
gins, rough underneath. Sheath even, with a 
fhort gnawed-like hairy fheath-feale. Panicle 
nearly 6 inches, clofe before flower, fpreading 
whengin flower, and becoming again clofe in its 
feminal ftate.. Spikets egg-fhaped, containing’ 
from g to 12 florets; thofe at the bafe diftant. 
Calyx, valves unequal, awnlefs, {mooth, 3-nerved, 
fkinny at the edges. Corolla, outer valve 
{fwollen,. awned beneath the top: inner valve 
more narrow and flender, concave, ciliated on 
the edges. Awn not quite ftraight, and fhorter 
than the outer valve. 
B. Panicle nearly upright: fpikets egg-fhaped, 
pubefcent; awn ftraight, leaves very foft, 
woolly. 
A very common grafs, growing in many fitu- 
ations, as meadows, paftures, banks or hedges, 
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