364 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^R. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bracliyp odium. 



Spikelets f-i-g in., erect, recurved from the rachis, glabrous or pubescent, green 

 and purplish. Glumes coriaceous ; I 5-nerved ; II 7-nerved ; flg. gls. oblong, 

 mucronate, 5-nerved. 



Tribe X. HORDED. (See p. 8.) 

 125. LOLIUM, Linn. 



Erect annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spike- 

 lets many-fld., solitary, sessile in the alternating distichous hollows of a 

 terminal inarticulate spike, with the back of the lowest fl. gl. towards the 

 rachis, rachilla jointed. Glumes many, 10, except in the terminal spikelet ; 

 II erect, rigid, persistent, many-nerved, empty, margins not involute ; flg. 

 shorter than the empty, oblong, obtuse, acute or awned, dorsally rounded. 

 5- many-nerved ; keels of palea ciliolate or serrulate. Lodicules 2, fleshy. 

 Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles terminal, feathery to the base, 

 Grain glabrous, adherent to the palea. Species few, of the temperate Old 

 World. 



The Italian Eye-grass. L. multiflorum, Lamk. (italicum, A. Br.) is a cultivated 

 form of L. perenne. 



1. Xi. temulentum, Linn. 8p. PL 83; annual, leaves flat, spikelets 

 oblong-cuneate 3-8-fld., empty gl. linear many-nerved equalling or exceed- 

 ing the rest of the spikelet, flg. gls. elliptic acute or awned. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 160 ; Host Gram. Austr. t. 26; Engl Bot. t. 1124; Knapp Gram. Britt. 

 t. 101 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 5:'T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. 

 t. 78 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 340; Kunth Enum. PL i. 437; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 iv. 345 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 681 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 667 ; Aitchis. 

 Cat. Panjab. PL 171; Wall. Cat, n. 3790 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. 2nd. 44, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 68. L. annuum, Lamk FL Fr. hi. 620. L. arvense, 

 With. Arr. Brit. PL Ed. III. ii. 168. Craepalia temulenta, Schrank 

 Baier FL i. 382. 



The UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN, the PANJAB, SIND, and WESTERN HIMALAYA, 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia (introd. elsewhere). 



Stem 6-18 in., erect, usually stout. Leaves f 5 in. broad, and sheaths smooth or 

 scaberulous ; ligule very short. Spike 6-10 in., strict, rachis stout. Spikelets very 

 variable in size and shape, longer or shorter than the internodes; gl. I ^-f in., 

 rigid, erect; fl. gls. -* in., awn in. or shorter, or 0. 



Var. speciosum, Griseb. in Ltdeb. 1. c. ; spike very stout, gl. I large, flg. gls. 

 short turgid obtuse. L. speciosum, Stev. ex Bieb. FL. Taur._Cauc. i. 80. L. robustum, 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xi. II. t. 4. Western Himalaya (introd.?). 



2. Xi. rigridum, Gaud., var. Duthiei, Hack. mss. ; annual, stem and 

 spike very slender strict erect, leaves short narrow, spikelets narrowly 

 oblong closely appressed to the rachis 3-6-fld., empty gl. rather shorter 

 than the rest of the spikelet oblong-lanceolate subacute 5-ribbed, flg. gls. 

 elliptic subacute 5-nerved scaberulous above the middle narrowed at the 

 hyaline apex into a slender terminal awn or awn infra-apical. 



KASHMIR; near Sirinagur, alt. 5-6000 ft., Duthie (no. 10,846). DISTRIB. of/.. 

 riffidum, westward to the Caucasus and S. Europe. 



I adopt Hackel's determination of this grass, which differs from L. rigidwn 

 proper in the narrower spikelets closely appressed to the rachis of the spike, and in 

 the awned glumes, a character to which there is no approach in any of the numerous 



