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BROMUS STERILIS. 
Linnzxvus. Hooker anp Arnott. Sire. Parnetyt. GReEvILLE. 
Linptry. Host. Kocu. Winipenow. Curtis. Marryn. 
Kwapp. Gerarpe. Sincnarr. Scuraper. Lerrers. Enruart. Kvunrua. 
Basineton. Macreicut. Deakin. 
PLATE LIII. 
Bromus grandiflorus, WEIGEL. 
The Barren Brome Grass. 
Bromus—Food. Sterilis—Barren. 
A comMoN, road-side, useless agricultural Grass, growing in 
dry shady situations. 
Found in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, 
Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Northern Africa. 
Stem circular, rough, and striated, carrying four or five flat, 
linear, pubescent, acute leaves, with rough striated sheaths, the 
upper one of same length as its leaf, and having a blunt 
ragged ligule at the apex. Joints five, naked. Inflorescence 
panicled, pale green in colour, and sometimes tinged with purple. 
Panicle spreading and drooping, having long, slender, rough 
branches. Spikelets mostly of eight awned florets, lanceolate 
and lengthy. Calyx of two unequal acute glumes, the upper 
one having three rough ribs, the lower one destitute of lateral 
ribs. Florets of two paleew, the exterior one of basal floret 
longer than the calyx; margins membranous; summit bifid; 
seyen-ribbed, the dorsal rib ending in a rough awn, which is 
