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FESTUCA BROMOIDES. 
Linnzvus. Parnect. Hooxrer ann Arnott. SmitH. GREVILLE. 
Basineton. Kuntru. Macrrieur.. DEAKIN. 
PLATE L.—A. 
Festuca Myurus, Smirn. (Not of Linnzxvs.) 
“  pseudo-myurus, Kocu. 
6 sciurotdes, Kocu. 
Vulpia bromoides, Dumort. Linpiery. 
The Barren Fescue Grass. 
Festuca— P Bromoides—Wild oats. 
A not uncommon but useless agricultural Grass. 
Found in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzer- 
land, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. 
Stem upright, circular, smooth, and slender, carrying three 
or four short, very narrow, frequently involute leaves, with 
smooth striated sheaths, the upper one extending considerably 
beyond its leaf, and having a very brief ligule at its apex. 
Joints three, smooth. Inflorescence simple-panicled, long and 
slender. Spikelets erect, of five awned florets. Calyx of two 
exceedingly unequal acute glumes, the basal one destitute of 
lateral ribs, whilst the uppermost one is three-ribbed. Florets 
of two pale, the exterior one of basal floret five-ribbed, and 
of same length as the large glume, ending in a long slender 
awn. Inner palea lanceolate, having two green marginal ribs. 
Root annual and fibrous. Length from two to twenty-four 
inches. 
