202 BRACHYPODIUM PINNATUM. 
smooth, unequal, and seven-ribbed. Floret of two pale, ex- 
terior one of basal floret longer than the large glume. Inner 
palea shorter. Awns shorter than their florets. Styles two. 
Stigmas plumose. Filaments three. Anthers notched at either 
extremity. Length thirty-six inches. Root perennial and 
creeping. 
Flowers at the commencement of July. 
Var. Gracile—More slender, and with shorter spikelets. 
Found in Kent. 
Var. Cespitosum.—Spikelets small, leaves very narrow. Found 
near Bath. 
Var. Compositum.—Spikelets rising from the rachis in 
threes. Found in Yorkshire. 
Var. Hispidum—Glume and florets hirsute. Found in 
Yorkshire. 
Var. HMirsutum.—Glume and florets hirsute, awns_ short, 
raceme erect. Found in Yorkshire. 
The specimen illustrated was gathered on Mapperly Plains, 
near Nottingham. 
