892 GRAMINE^. (grass FAMILY.) 



leaves linear, narrow, flat, more or less densely velvety and also loosely 

 ciliate; culm-leaves small. Panicle erect, oblong, .05 to .1 long, .02 

 to .03 broad, branches 1-3 together, shorter to longer than spikelet; 

 spikelets pale, 6-9-fiowered, oblong, .02 to .03 long, .01 broad vrhen 

 open ; glumes linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; lower pale linear-lanceolate, 

 more or less densely puberulent, obsoletely 5-nerved, acutely 2-toothed at 

 tip, with a straight or bent awn nearly or quite as long as itself — May 

 to July — Alpine and subalpine Lebanon and Hermon; top of el-Quleb 

 and el-Jowalil (Hauran) ; Marash. 



3. B. tectorwrn, L. .1 to .5, erect or ascending, 2Jubescent 

 alove. Panicle short, somewhat one-sided^ pendulous, with capillary 

 branches; spikelets with awns .03 to .04 long, 5-d-^oweved, 2niiescent, 

 rarely glabrous, linear ; glumes lanceolate, scarious at margins and tip ; 

 lower pale linear-lanceolate, as long as or a little shorter than the 

 straight awn — Spring — Dry places, especially roofs and walls; 

 everywhere. 



4. B, §terili§, L. .3 to .5, erect, glabrous. Panicle loose, 

 nearly simple ; peduncles slender, drooping, longer than spikelet ; spike- 

 lets with awns .06 long, glalrous or 2^udescejit-scal>rous, 6-10-flowered; 

 glumes linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, lower more than half as long 

 as upper; pales often turniJig darlc-purple ; the lower many -nerved, short- 

 er than aw?i — Spring — Fields and waysides; everywhere. 



5. B. flabellatu§, Hackel. .3, erect, minutely puberulent 

 above. Leaves puberulent, linear, acuminate. Panicle ohovate-oUong, 



fan-shaped, .07 to .08 long, .04 wide, dense, Iranches much shorter than 

 spiMets, erect; spikelets pale, 4-8-flowered, glabrous or puberulent- 

 scabrous; glumes linear-lanceolate, acuminate; lower pale linear-lan- 

 ceolate, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves near together; awn as long as pale 

 or a little longer — Spring — Fields and dry places; Sinai; Jerusalem; 

 Ladder of Tyre ; Syrian coast ; Aintab. 



6. B. IIaii§§knecbtii, Boiss. .3, erect. Leaves flaccid, 

 soft-pubescent. Panicle erect, oblong-lanceolate, branches erect, 

 shorter than spikelets or as long ; spikelets 5-7-flowered ; glumes linear- 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate; lower pale appressed -hirsute, linear-lanceo- 

 late, .01 long, keeled, about 5-nerved, long-bidentate below tip; awn 

 once and a half as long as pale — Spring — Jebel-elQuleb (Hauran). 

 Distinguished ly its ihort spiJcelets and pales. 



7. B. Matriten§is, L. .3 to .4, erect. Panicle nearly simple, 

 oblong; peduncles short, or as long as spikelets, erect, or the loicer ones 

 somewhat recurved ; spikelets glabrous or pubescent, 5-12-flowered, .04 

 to .05 long; glumes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, lower half as long 

 as upper; pales generally green, the lower with more or less prominent \ 

 lateral nerves, about as long as awn — Spring — Fields and waj^sides; ' 

 everywhere. 



Var. purpura§ceii§, Post. Glumes and pales purplish — With 

 type (B. purpurascens, Del.) 



Var. Delilei, Boiss. Low. Panicle dense, obovate-oblong; spike- 

 lets .01 to .02 long, exclusive of awns: flowerets small — Et-Tih,' 

 near Palestine ; Sinai ; Palmyra. 



8. B. rigidui, Roth. .3 to .5, rigid, hairy above. Leaves 

 hairy. Panicle oblong, erect, simple; spikelets 6-8-flowered, glabrous, 



