^ APPENDIX. 10S7 



The panicle is fix inches long, branched, and 

 *open. 



The fpicula are above half an inch long, large, 

 oval, and diftichous, ered at firft, but nod- 

 ding when big with feeds, compounded each of 

 eight, ten, or twelve flowers, of a green color, 

 covered with Ihort downy hairs which wear off 

 by age. 



The valves of the calyx are unequal, one being 

 oval and pointed, the other narrower and lan- 

 ceolate. 



The exterior valve of the corolla is convex, obtufe, 

 and tumid, furnilh'd on the back with a ftraight 

 beard, arifing a little below the apex, and 

 about two thirds of the valve in length. 



If the feeds of this grafs be mix'd with the corn 

 in any great quantity, they will render the 

 bread difagreeably bitter. 



The common people in Sweden entertain an ab- 

 furd notion, that rye is often converted into 

 this grafs. 



ramofus. . BROMUS panicula nutante fcabra, fpiculis vil- 



lofis ariftatis, foliis fcabris. Syft. nat. edit. 13. 



pag. 102. Hudf. Ang. p. 40. (Moris, hiji. 



Ox.feft. 8. /. 7./. 27.) 



Great branched Brome-grafs. Anglis. 



In woods and hedges but rare in Scotland. We 



10 found 



