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BROMUS ERECTUS. 
Hupson, Hooxer anp Arnott. SmitH. Pasrnett. 
Kocu. Linptry. Dickson. Kwnarp. Srtnctatr. ScHrapER. OZEDER. 
Kountu. Basineton. Macretaut. Draxin. 
PLATE LI. 
Bromus agrestis, Attioni. Host. 
“< _ perennis, VILLARS. 
The Upright Oat-Grass. 
Bromus—Food. Erectus—Upright. 
Bromus. JLinneus.—The Brome-Grass, of which there are a dozen 
British species, has a lax panicle, with many-flowered laterally-compressed 
spikelets. The name is derived from the Greek, signifying food; hence 
the present word, which the Greeks used for one of the Oat-Grasses. 
A LARGE-GROWING species, of but little agricultural value. 
In England found in Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Nor- 
folk, Cambridge, Oxford, Worcester, and Yorkshire. In the 
Island of Anglesea, and occasionally in Ireland and Scotland. 
Found in Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, and Italy. 
Stem circular and smooth, habit erect; bearing four or five 
linear, harsh, hairy, nearly erect leaves, with hairy sheaths, the 
upper one having at its apex a brief ragged ligule. Joints 
five. Inflorescence simple-panicled or racemed. Raceme upright 
and compact. Spikelets upright, consisting of eight or nine 
awned florets, tinged with brownish purple. Calyx of two equal- 
sized acute glumes; upper one three-ribbed, basal one destitute 
