18" 



IIORDEUM PRATENSE. 



Hudson. Hooker and Arnott. Smith. Kunth. 



Deakin. Parnell. Lindley. Eelhan. jVIartyn. Knapp. Sinclair. 



Macreight. Sc'Hrader. EnRHART. Withering. Sibtiiorp. 



Babingtox. Reichenbach. 



PLATE lAIlI. 



Hordeum nodosum. KocH. LlNNJ:us. 



secalinum, WiLLDENOW. HoST. 



•* maritimuvi. Oeder. 



Gramen seccdinnm. Gerarde. Eay. 



The Meadoir Biiiiey. 



HordeiDu — ? Pratctise — A field. 



Found 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 earlv 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 a very brief ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. Inflor- 

 escence spiked. Spikes dense, and an inch and a half long. 

 Rachis dentate. Spikelcts in threes on each tooth of the 

 rachis. Calyx of central spikelet consisting of two equal- 



