GRAMINE^. (GRASS FAMILY.) 893 



or pubescent, .08 to .08 long; glumes unequal, linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, scarious-margined ; lower pale linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 keeled, with about 5 prominent nerves, less than half as long as awn — 

 Spring — Fields and waste places ; coast. 



9. B. rul>en§, L. © .2 to .3, erect, pubescent above. Panicle 

 erect, compact, oiovate, with very short branches; spikelets pubescent or 

 glabrous, terete, slightly flattened, 4:-8-flowered, upper flowerets general- 

 ly sterile ; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, unequal, the upper twice as 

 broad as the lower; lower pale 5-7-nerved, scarious at margin, acutely 

 bifid ; awn about as long as pale, at length curved outward ■- — Spring — 

 Fields and roadsides ; coast to subalpino regions, and southward to the 

 Tih and Sinai; Gilead. 



10. B. fa§cicii!atus, Presl. .2 to .3, erect, glabrous. Pan- 

 icle erect, compact, obovate-cuneate, with short, stiff branches ; spike- 

 lets glabrous, rarely puberulent, flattened, few, loosely 8-10-flowered, 

 the upper 1-2 flowerets sterile; glumes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 unequal; lower pale linear-awl-shaped, keeled, as long as its somewhat 

 twisted awn ; lateral nerves obsolete — Spring — Waste fields ; Syria and 

 Palestine; Dead Sea; Damascus; Antilebanon. 



11. B, §coparin§, L. .2 to .4, ascending, glabrous. Panicle 

 erect, dense, ovate to ollong, .04 long, .001 to .035 broad, obtuse, with 

 very short branches; spikelets pubescent or glabrous, 6-8-flowered; 

 glumes lanceolate, acutish, scarious-margined, somewhat unequal; 

 lower pale oblong, scarious-margined, short-bifid, nearly as long as its 

 spreading, at length twisted aion — Spring — Common everywhere. 



12. B. alopecurws, Poir. .4, geniculate-ascending. Pani- 

 cle erect, cylindrical, .1 long, .01 broad, often interrupted below, dense, 

 branches short, appressed; spikelets pubescent, linear-lanceolate, 8-15- 

 flowered ; glumes unequal ; lower pale lanceolate-linear, membranous- 

 margined, acutely bifid, shorter than the spreading, timtedawn — Spring 

 — Fields; coast to middle mountain zones; Huleh. 



13. B. §quarro§u§, L. .1 to .2; culms slender, glabrous. Pan- 

 icle loose, simple, nodding, somewhat one-sided, pedicels slender, 

 curved, shorter than spiJcelet ; spikelet gla- Fig. 413. 

 brous, or rarely soft-villous, ovate-oblong to 

 elliptical, obtuse, flattened, 8-20-flowered ; 

 glnmea oUong, ohtuse, somewhat unequal; low- 

 er pale oblong-rhomboid, obsoletely nerved, 

 with broad-scarious margin, obtusish, short- 

 bifid ; awn far from tip, at length spreading 

 and somewhat twisted, longer than pale — 

 Spring — Dry places ; Lebanon ; Antilebanon ; 

 Damascus ; Palmyrene Desert ; Amanus. 



14. B, macrostacliy§, Desf. .3 to 

 . 6, erect, glabrous. Panicle erect, with short, 

 stiff branches ; spikelets glabrous or glabres- 

 cent, .02 to .03 long including awns, oNong- 

 lenticular, 10-16-flowered. Glumes unequal, 

 oUong -lanceolate, obtusish, many-nerved ; 



lower pale ollong -elliptical, bidentate, with SpikeietofBromusmacrostachys 

 scarious division reaching to base of axon, shorter than spreading, at 



