503 98. GRAMINEJE. 



base ; upper pale glabrous, lower pilose on the veins below, anth. 

 violet. j3. Senckenii (Syme) ; pan. slightly drooping with rather 

 short suberect branches 3 6 together with a semilunar very 

 blunt not ciliate subdecurrent scale at their base, upper gl. ciliate 

 to the top, lower pale pilose throughout ; 1. flat, upper sheaths 

 subglabrous, lower hispid, anth. golden. Damp woods and 

 thickets. P. ? VII. E. S. I. 



** Spikelets always broader upward*. Ribs of upper pale 

 strongly fringed. Aivn long. 



3. B. ster'ilis (L.) ; pan. drooping, branches long slightly di- 

 vided, spikelets linear-lanceolate, fl. remote, lower pale glabrous 

 shorter than its awn with 7 distinct equidistant ribs, 1. pubescent. 

 E. B. 1030. P. 50. Height 12 feet. L. broad, flat, Waste 

 places. A. VI. E. S. I. 



4. B. madriterisis (L.) ; panicle erect, branches short scarcely 

 divided, spikelets lanceolate, fl. linear remote subcylindrical, 

 lower pale about as long as its awn 7 -ribbed, 2 lateral ribs 

 close together, inter m. rib faint. E. B. 1006. P. 50. a. JL 

 diandrns (Cart.) ; st. glabrous, rachis and pedicels rough. St. 

 (3 12 in. high. Remarkable for its erect panicle. Upper pale 

 but little shorter than the lower. [/3. B. rigidus (Roth) ; pan. 

 compact, pedicels very short, upper part of st., pedicels, rachis 

 and 'gl. pubescent.] Dry sandy places, rare. [/3. Channel 

 Islands.] A. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



\_B. tectorum (L.) ; like B. madritensis, pan. secund drooping. 

 upper pale much the shorter. Introduced.] 



[J?. max'imus (Desf.) ; pan. erect lax at length nodding, 

 branches slightly divided lengthened after flowering, spikelets 

 downy, lower pale 1 -ribbed about half as long as its awn. 

 E. B'. S. 2820. Height 12 feet. A most beautiful grass. 

 Sandy places. Channel Islands. A. VIII.] 



44. SEKBAFAL'CUS Parlatore \ 



* Fl. at first looselij imbricate, afterwards distinct and 

 cylindrical. 



*1. S. secalinus (Bab.) ; pan. loose drooping in fr. slightly 

 compound, simple peduncles about as long as the oblong gla- 

 brous spikelets, fl. about as long as the straight awn, lower 



1 Corresponds to the genus Sromvs of Fries ; to part of Browns 

 of Sin., Hook.,. &c. 



