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BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM. 
Beauvais. Hooker anp Arnotr. Linpiey. DEaAkIN. 
Kocu. Bapinoton. 
PLATE LXVI-———A. 
Festuca sylvatica, Smiru. Sinctarr. Hupvson. Martyn. 
se ef Kwaprp. Dickson. Licurroot. 
fs ee Wirnertnc. ReEeLHan. SIBrHorP. 
a gracilis, Mancu. ScHRADER. 
Bromus sylvaticus, Potticn. Smitu. Hurt. Hooker. 
as es Srxcnatr. Pourrer. Host. 
* gracilis, WeiceL. Rote. WILLpENow. 
ss s EnRHART. 
Triticum sylvaticum, Mencu. Parnevtt. Kuna. 
ss ss MacreIcur. 
The Slender False Brome-Grass. 
Brachypodium—Short foot. Sylvaticum—A_ wood. 
Bracuypopium. Beauvais.—The False Brome-Grass is named from the 
Greek, and signifies short-footed. This genus is intermediate between 
Bromus and Triticum. There are two British examples. 
Or no agricultural use, growing in damp shady situations; 
common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia. 
Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five 
broad sharp-pointed polished leaves, with hirsute striated 
sheaths, upper leaf extending beyond its sheath, and having 
a blunt hirsute ligule at its apex. Joints hairy, and four in 
number. Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets lengthy and cylin- 
