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AVENA FLAVESCENS. 
Linnzvus. Hooker anp Arnorr. Smita. Kocu. GrevittE. WILLDENOW. 
Curtis. Kwapp. Sryciatr. SCHRADER. 
Host. Scureser. Lerrs. Euraart. Witnertnc. Hupson. Hutt. 
Retyan. Sisruorre. Assor. ReicHenpacH. DEakIN. 
PGA xo AN 
Trisetum flavescens, Beaveaux. Parnetn. LInpiey. 
ot a Basineton. Macreient, Kunta. 
The Yellow Oat-Grass. 
Avena—Oat. Flavescens—Y ellow. 
A FREQUENT species, found in dry meadows and _ pastures, 
in England, Scotland, and Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, 
Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and North Africa. 
Sheep are very fond of this Grass. 
Stem upright, circular, and polished, carrying six or seven 
flat, roughish, acute leaves, with striated sheaths, the upper 
one double the length of its leaf, and having a brief ligule at 
its apex. Joints smooth. Inflorescence panicled, the panicle 
being upright and spreading. The lower branches usually in 
fives. Spikelets numerous, upright, and diminutive, mostly of 
three awned florets, which extend beyond the calyx. Calyx 
of two acute unequal membranous glumes, the upper glume 
being the largest and three-ribbed. Florets of two palez, 
exterior one of basal floret membranous. Apex bifid; base 
hirsute; five-ribbed. Inner palee linear, acute, and membra- 
nous. Awn twisted at the base, rough and longer than the 
