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BROMUS MOLLIS. 



LiNNiEUS. Hooker and Arnott. H. Watson. Parnell. Curtis. 



WiLLDENOW. MaRTYN. KnAPP. SINCLAIR. 



ScHRADER. Host. Schreber. Leers. Ehrhart. Weigel. Lindley. 



Koch. Greville. Hull. Relhan. 



SiBTHORP. Abbot. Macbeight. Kunth, Ralfs. Deakin. 



PLATE LVII A. 



Serrafalcus mollis, Pablatore. Babington. 



Bromus polymorphus, Hudson. Withering. 



" hordeaceus, LiNNiEUS. 



" nanus, Weigel. 



The Soft Brome G7'ass. 



Bromus — Food. Mollis — Soft. 



A USELESS species, growing on poor land. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Found also in 

 France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 

 North Africa and North America. 



Stem hairy, upright, and circular, carrying three or four flat, 

 linear-lanceolate, striated, hairy leaves, with striated sheaths, 

 having a small obtuse jagged ligule. Joints four or five, in 

 some degree hirsute. Inflorescence racemed or simple-panicled. 

 Raceme upright; branches rough and hirsute, basal ones mostly 

 in threes. Spikelets upright, ovate in form, deep green in colour, 

 and mostly of ten awned florets. The ajaex of large glume 

 midway between its base and the apex of the third floret. 

 Calyx of two broad hirsute glumes; upper one seven-ribbed, 



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