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BKACIIYPODIUiM SYLVATICUM. 



Beauvais. Hooker and Arnott. Lindley. Deakix. 

 Kocu. Babinoton. 



PLATE I.X^I. A. 



Festuca sjjlvatica, 



" gracilis, 

 Bromus sylvaticus, 



it t6 



" gracilis, 



a ii 



Triticu m stjlcaticu m , 



Smith. Sinclair. Hudson. Maktyn. 

 Knapp. Dickson. Lightfoot. 

 Withering. Kelhan. Sibthorp. 



MoilNCU. SCHRADER. 



PoLLicH. Smith. Hull. Hooker. 



Sinclair. Pourret. Host. 



"NVeigel. Eoth. Willdenow. 



Ehrhart. 



McENCH. Parnell. Kunth. 



Macreight. 



The Slender False Brome- Grass. 



Srachypodiitm — Sliort foot. 



Sijlvaticum — A wood. 



Braciiypodium. 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. 



Of 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- 



