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3ROMUS ARVENSIS. 
Kocu. Smiru. Linpiry. Parnett. 
PLATE LVI. 
Serrafaleus arvensis. Gopron. BaBineton. 
The Taper Field Brome-Grass. 
Bromus—Food. Arvensis—Field. 
A RARE, and by some authorities considered a doubtful British 
species. 
Found on the coast of Durham, at Hebden-Bridge, Yorkshire, 
Southampton Bay, Box Hill, and about Edinburgh. 
Native of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Norway, 
Germany, Sweden, Lapland, and Western Asia. 
An early Grass, and useful for sheep. 
Stem upright, circular, hard, bearing four or five narrow, 
flat, hairy leaves, with striated sheaths, which are shorter than 
their leaves. Joints four. Inflorescence simple-panicled; branches 
rough. Spikelets linear-lanceolate, mostly of seven awned florets, 
reddish brown in colour. Apex of large glume midway be- 
tween the base of the glume and the apex of the second floret. 
Glumes unequal, margins membranous, keels rough. Inner 
glume largest, and five-ribbed; outer glume three-ribbed. Florets 
of two pale, exterior one of basal floret longer than the glumes, 
summit bifid or entire; margins membranous. Inner palea thin, 
acute, white, membranous, and having two green ribs fringed 
with colourless hairs. Awns upright and rough. Styles two, 
