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Distributio. In silvis pr. Rostock, Mecklenburg, I. Brinck- 
mann. 
Festuca elatior X Lolium perenne. 
Laxe caespitosa; innovationes partim intra-partim extra-vagi- 
nales. Culmi 60—90 cm alti, teretes, laeves. Vaginae (ut in Lolio) 
ad os usque integrae, laeves, emarcidae subfibrosae. Ligulae breves, 
truncatae, glabrae. Laminae juvenes complicatae v. varo subcon- 
volutae, adultae planae, lineari-lanceolatae, basi auriculatae, longe 
acutatae, apice acutiusculae, inferne laeves, superne marginibusque 
scaberulae v. laeviusculae, multinerves, multicostatae, costis tripliei 
magnitudine, faseiculis sclerenchymatieis tenuibus et inferioribus et 
superioribus his omnibus, illis nervis primariis et secundariis tantum 
correspondentibus instructae, cellulis bulliformibus ad latera nervi 
medii manifestis in reliquis sinubus obsoletis munitae. Panicula 
elongata (12—30 cm Ig.) aut simplex, racemiformis, spieulis soli- 
tariis breviter pedicellatis plus minusve distantibus aut subramosa 
ramo imo primario 3—4-spieulato secundario brevissimo unispieu- 
lato, erecta v. apice subnutans, rhachi dorso v. convexa v. plana 
v. excavata angulis scabra Spiculae interiores breviter pedicellatae, 
positione semitransversa, superiores sessiles v. subsessiles, positione 
mediana, lineares v. lineari-oblongae, multiflorae, 5—12-florae, 
12—15 mm Ig., pallidae v. subvariegatae, rhachilla scabra. Glumae 
steriles inaequales, I22 (in spiculis mediano-positis interna) brevior, 
linearis, 1—3-nervis, obtusiuscula, usque 6 mm Ig., rarius deficiens 
v. minuta et in duas fissa, Il@ Jineari-oblonga, 8 mm Ig., acutius- 
cula v. obtusa v. rotundata, 3—Ö-nervis, ad °/a v. fere ad apicem 
9 mm Ig., oblongo-lanceolatae, 
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acutiusculae, obtusiusculae v. obtusae, apice scariosae, antice obso- 
lete costatae, glabrae, laeves v. scaberulae, muticae. Palea oblonga, 
bidenticulata, carinis eiliato-scabrae. Antherae paleam dimidiam 
aequantes polline deformato, sphaero - polyedrico, absque fovilla 
repletae. 
F. loliacea Curt. Fl. Lond. VI. t. 9 (1777) et jam Huds.? Fl. angl. 
ed. 1. p. 38 (1762). (vix decernendum). — F. adscendens Retz. prodr. Fl. 
seand. ed. 1. n. 134 (1779) ex Koch, Anders. — F. elongata Erh.! Beitr. VI. 
133 (1791). — F. Phoenix Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. 2. I. 52 (1799) ex M..& K. — 
Poa loliacea Koel. Deser. gram. 207 ex. M.& K. — Lolium festuca- 
ceum Lk. hort. ber. L 273 (1827). — Schenodorus loliaceus R. & Sch. 
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