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HORDEUM PRATENSE. 
Hupson. Hooker anp Arnott. SmitH. Konia. 
Deakin. Parnett. Linpiry. Retnwan. Martyn. Kwarpp. SInccarr. 
Macreicnt. Scuraper. Enreart. WiItTHERING. S1prHorp. 
Bapineton. -RrtcHENBACH. 
PLATE LXIII.——A. 
Hordeum nodosum, Kocu. Linnzvs. 
oe secalinum, Witipenow. Host. 
as maritimum. OEDER. 
Gramen secalinum, GERARDE. Ray. 
The Meadow Barley. 
Hordeum—............ ? Pratense—A field. 
Founp in moist meadows and pastures in the counties of 
Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, 
Bedford, Oxford, Leicester, Worcester, Warwick, Nottingham- 
shire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Flint, 
and Denbigh. In Scotland rare—near Edinburgh; occasionally 
in Ireland. Extending into central Europe. 
An early species, and although common in Norfolk pastures 
is not considered a profitable agricultural Grass. 
Stem circular, smooth, upright, and polished, carrying four 
or five linear, flat, somewhat hirsute leaves, with smooth stri- 
ated sheaths; the upper one being longer in its leaf, and 
having avery brief ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. Inflor- 
escence spiked. Spikes dense, and an inch and a half long. 
Rachis dentate. Spikelets in threes on each tooth of the 
rachis. Calyx of central spikelet consisting of two equal- 
