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tufts. L. broad. a. F. arundinacea (Schreb.) ; pan .-branches 

 divaricate with fl. and fruit. A very large plant, 3 6 ft. high* 

 8. F. elatior (L. ?); pan.-branches shorter " divaricate with fl. 

 afterwards ascending." a. Banks near the sea. . Damp pas- 

 tures. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



11. F.praterisis (Huds.) ; pan. close subsecund, branches in 

 pairs one bearing a single spikelet the other several never divaricate, 

 spikelets linear-oblong of 5 10 rather distant fl., dorsal rib of 

 lower pale ending at or just below the tip or forming a very 

 short awn, 1. linear-lanceolate. E. B. 1592. P. 46. F. elatior 

 Koch. A smaller plant than the preceding. Rachis triangular. 

 Pan.-branches ascending; one of each pair nearly always reduced 

 to a single spikelet. In this and the preceding the pale is blunt 

 or acute according as the midrib is or is not attached up to the 

 tip. ft. F. loliacea (Huds.) ; spikes solitary alternate long slen- 

 der truly distichous, lower ones stalked, rarely in pairs, upper 

 nearly sessile, fl. distant, lower gl. 5 8-ribbed, veins of lower 

 pale parallel, no awn, rachis flattish. On water meadows spike- 

 lets are often all sessile and upper gl. vanishing. [Now usually 

 regarded as a hybrid between F.pratensis and Lolium perenne^\ E. B. 

 18:21. P. 45, 113 '& 114. Wet meadows. P. VI. VII. E.S.I. 



43. BKO'MUS Linn. 1 



* Spikelets broader upwards when in flower, not afterwards. 

 Ribs of upper pale jinely fringed. 



1. B. erec'tus (Huds.) ; pan. erect nearly simple, spikelets 

 linear-lanceolate, fl. remote subcylindrical, lower pale indistinctly 

 7-veined, loivestjl. -J- exceeding the upper gl. and longer than its 

 awn, root-1. very narrow ciliate. E. B. 471. P. 51. St. 2 3 

 ft. high, erect. Root-1. convolute ; upper 1. broadest ; sheaths 

 somewhat hairy with upward hairs. /S. villosus ; . lower pals 

 hairy. On dry sandy and chalky soil. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



2. B. ramosus (Huds.); pan. drooping with long divaricate 

 slightly divided branches, spikelets lanceolate, fl. remote linear- 

 lanceolate, lower pale pilose on the veins below, lowest fl. twice 

 exceeding the glabrous upper gl. and longer than its awn, 

 /. broad hairy. E. B. 1172. P. 51. B. asper (Murr.) ed. viii. 

 B. serotinus (Benek.). St. 4 5 feet high. L. flat; lower ones 

 broadest ; sheaths all with downward hairs ; branches 2 together 

 with a semilunar strongly ciliate much decurrent scale at their 



1 Synonymous with the genus Schedonorus of Fries, not of Beauv. 



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