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HAH. Woods and hedges, not uncommon, Lightf. Fl. July. 7/ . 

 Two feet high. Leaves broadly linear-lanceolate, very hairy. 'Spike 



long. Cal, valves unequal, lanceolate-acuminate, much nerved. 



Ext. valve of cor. linear-lanceolate, much nerved, scabrous, rarely 



harry j inner one truncate, margins ciliated. 



** Awn from below the point of the Cor. Panicle branched. 



2. Br. secalinus (smooth Eye Brome-grass), panicle spreading, 

 peduncles but little branched, spikelets oblongo-ovate (ovate, 

 Sm.) compressed of about ten subcylindrical glabrous rather 

 remote flowers, longer than the awn. E. B. t. 1171. (Not 

 Lig/itf.) 



HAB. Coast of Angus- and Fifeshire, G. Don. Cliesh, Mr. Arnott. Fl. 

 July, Aug. G . 



Two to three feet high. Leaves somewhat hairy. Cal. and ext. valve 

 of cor. broadly ovate int. cor. valve bifid at the point, the mar- 

 gins strongly ciliated. When the seeds ripen, the upper spikelets 

 are pendulous, and the florets exhibit more distinctly the distant 

 mode of insertion. 



3. Br. velutinus (dowrty Rye Jerome -grass), panicle spreading, 

 peduncles but little branched, spikelets oblongo-luncedlate 

 compressed of about 12 cylindrical pubescent subimbricated 

 florets, awns longer than the glume (at length patent, Schrad.). 

 Sc/irad. Fl. Germ. p. 349. Liglitf. p. 1086 (Br. secalinus, <MQ 

 Sm.). E. B. t. 1834 (Br. mulliflorus) . 



HAB. Corn-fields, but not common. Fields behind the Bot. garden, 

 Edinb., Mr. Yalden in Lightf. Between Edinb. and Newhaven, 

 Smith in E. B. Fl. June, July. Q- 



Of this species I confess myself to know little. It is nearly allied to 

 Br. secal. ; but the awn is longer (at length patent, Schrad.), and 

 the glumes are pubescent, circumstances undoubtedly likely to vary. 

 The Br. multiflorus of Wiegel, which Sir James Smith supposes to 

 be this, Schrader, upon the authority of Wiegel' s own specimen, 

 pronounces to be Br. arrensis. So difficult is it to be certain of 

 mere descriptions of Grasses. 



4. Br. mollis (soft Brume-grass), panicle erect close compound, 

 spikelets ovate subcompressed, florets imbricated depressed 

 pubescent, awn straight about as long as the glume, leaves verv 

 soft pubescent. Lightf. p. 103. E. B. 1. 1078. 



HAB. Meadows, pastures, banks, corn-fields, &c. Fl. June. J. 



One to two feet high. Panicle 2 3 inches long. Spikelets standing 

 nearly erect. Florets 5 10. Ext. valve of cor. convex, by no 

 means forming such cylindrical florets as in the two last species. 



5. Br. racemosus (smooth Brome-grass), panicle erect, pedun- 

 cles simple, spikelets ovate subcompressed glabrous, florets 

 imbricated depressed, awn straight about as long as the glume, 

 leaves slightly hairy. E. B. t. 1079, and /. 920 (Br.pra- 

 fensis) . 



HAB. Corner of a grass-field by the road near Hidrie, Gl*g., rather 



