CH. vn] Botanical Description of Species 87 



Bromus inermis, Leyss. (Awnless Brome-grass.) (Fig. 81.) 

 See p. 141. 



This is not a native of Britain but is sometimes grown as a 

 forage crop on poor soils in this country under the name of 

 Hungarian Forage-grass. It is a perennial with long stout 

 rhizomes which enable it to endure drought and to spread rapidly 



Fig. 82. "Seed" 

 of Bromus in- 

 ermis. x 5. 



Fig. 81. Panicle of Bromus inermis. 

 About nat. size. 



in loose soils. The whole plant is entirely smooth and glabrous 

 and its foliage is of a rather dark-green hue. Sheaths entire, 

 with a slight keel or none. Blades rolled in the shoot, numerous, 

 broad, acuminate, almost ribless above, and but slightly keeled 

 below. There are no auricles, but gre'enish-yellow triangular 

 areas are conspicuous at the base of the blades. Ligule mem- 

 branous, very short and blunt. 



