GRAMINE/E. [Lotium. 



the calyx indistinctly 3-nerved, obtuse, of many awnless florets; 

 root fibrous, annual. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 56. . Fl. v. i. p. 186. 

 E. Bot. t. 221. Catapodium, Link. Lindl 



Sandy sea-shores. Sandyraount, Hovvth, &c. and on the northern 

 and southern coasts. Fl. June, July. Q. Stiff and wiry, branching 

 from the very base, three to four inches high. Leaves linear, rigid, 

 plane. Spikelets more or less distant, secund ; lower ones sometimes 

 compound. Ext. valve of the corolla broadly ovate, concave. 



26. BRACK YPODIUM. Beauv. False Brorae-grass. 



Spikelets alternate, remote, cylindrical-compressed. Calyx 

 2-valved, many-flowered ; valves opposite, transverse, un- 

 equal. Corolla 2-valved, the valves lanceolate ; ext. one 

 generally awned at the extremity, int. retuse. Named 

 from ppaxvs, short, and TTOVS, afoot; from the sessile or 

 nearly sessile spikelets. These sessile spikelets and the ter- 

 minal awn distinguish this genus from Bromus, where the 

 British plants of this genus had been placed. 



Triandria. Digynia. 



1. B. sylvaticum, Beauv. Slender Fake Brome-grass. Spike 

 drooping ; spikelets nearly cylindrical, secund, hairy ; awns 

 longer than the florets. Lindl. Syn. p. 279. Br. FL ed. 3. 

 p. 55. Festuca sylvatica, E. Fl. v. i. p. 149. Bromus sylvaticus, 

 Poll.E. Bot. t. 729. 



Woods and hedges, common. Fl. July. It. Two feet high. 

 Leaves broadly linear-lanceolate, very hairy. Calyx-valves unequal, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, much nerved. Ext. valve of corolla linear-lan- 

 ceolate, much nerved, scabrous, rarely hairy. Int. one truncated, 

 margins ciliated. 



2. B. pinnatum, Beauv. Heath False Brome-grass. Spike 

 erect ; spikelets nearly cylindrical, distichous, hairy ; awns 

 shorter than the florets. Lindl. Syn. p. 297. Br. Fl. ed. 3. 

 p. 57. Festuca pinnata, E. FL v. i. p. 150. Bromus pinn. 

 Linn.E. Bot. t. 730. 



Found in open fields and heathy places, on chalk, in England. Fl. 

 July. 1. Mr. J. Drummond states that he found it in hedges near 

 Kinsale, and Mr. Bradburry is said to have found it in similar situ- 

 ations in the Queen's County. I have now, however, reason to think 

 that the latter mistook B. sylvaticum for it, and I have no specimen 

 from the former station. 



27. LOLIUM. Linn. Darnel. 



Calyx of one valve, solitary, many-flowered. Corolla of two 



valves ; ext. awnless or with an awn below the extremity . 



Name, "quasi dolium, SoXiov, quod dolosum sit vel adul- 

 terinum. Fit enini e corruptis Tritici ac Hordei seminibus." 



