LOLIUM ITALICUM SUTTONI. 



SUTTON'S ITALIAN RYE GRASS. 



Annual or biennial. Eoot fil)rous. Stems 2 to 

 4 feet, erect, stout, smooth. Leaves long, broad, 

 glabrous, and succulent ; sheaths slightly rough ; 

 ligule short and obtuse. Spikelets many-flowered, 

 sessile, distichous on a long rachis. Upper empty 

 glume only present in the terminal spikelet ; lower 

 empty glume persistent, lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely 

 reaching to middle of spikelet. Flowering glumes 

 lanceolate. Awn as large as glume. Palea ciliate at 

 base. Flowers June and -July. Not known in a wild 

 state. 



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