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BRACHYPODIUM PINNATUM. 
Bravuvats. Hooxrer anp Arnorr. Linpiry. Deakin. Baninaron. 
PLATE ES Vie Bis 
Festuca pinnata, Hupson. Smiru. Srncrarr. Knapp. 
He s Dickson. ScurapEer. Rebuan. 
ae ss SrprHore. ABBOTT. 
Bromus pinnatus, Linnavus. Smiru. WI Liprnow. 
<9 Retyan. Sinciarr. Poiricn. 
ss ae Weicet. Host. LeErrs. 
ae es Hupson. Hott. 
Triticum pinnatum, Manca. Parnett. Kounta. 
es ss Macrerieut. 
The Heath False Brome-Grass. 
Brachypodium—Short foot. Pinnatum—Feathered. 
A USELEss agricultural Grass, growing on commons and 
in heathy situations, and preferring a chalk soil. 
Frequent in the counties of Devon, Oxford, Cambridge, 
Nottingham, Bedford, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Gloucester, Worcester, Leicester, York, and Cum- 
berland. 
Native of Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, 
and Portugal. 
Very subject to variety. 
Stem delicate, upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four 
or five lengthy linear rough leaves, with striated sheaths; 
upper one shorter than its leaf. Ligules brief. Joints hirsute. 
Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets upright, long, and _ linear, 
generally of ten awned florets and two glumes. Glumes 
