514 98. GRAMINE^E. 



St. 12 18 in. high, usually bent at the lower knots. Whole 

 plant rather dark green. ft. aristatum ; lower pale with a long 

 awn. y. L. tenue (L.) ; spikelets few-flowered, 1. slender. 

 Sometimes the spikelets become converted into branches; or 

 the rachis is so much shortened as to produce a broad ovate 

 close distichous spike. Common. P. VI. Rye-grass. E. S. I. 



' [L. ital'icum (A. Braun) ; with leafy barren shoots, edges of 

 young I. involute, spikelets 9 14-flowered, lower pale with a 

 long awn. R. vii. 77. P. 138 141. St. many, straight, in 

 close tufts, Ij 3 ft. high. Whole plant, especially the spike- 

 lets, paler than in the preceding. Ligule short, abrupt. 

 L. multiflorum (Lam.), perhaps confounded with this, has no 

 barren shoots and is annual. Cultivated fields. P. VI. Italian 

 Rye-grass.'] E. 



[L. linic'ola (Sond.) ; no barren shoots, spikelets 7 11-flow- 

 ered exceeding the gl., lower pale longer than its awn or awn- 

 less, fl. tumid with fruit. E. B. 2955. St. erect. Spike slender. 

 Lower pale cartilaginous below, narrower than the upper, tumid 

 in fruit. Cultivated fields. A. VI. VII.] E. 



}2. L. temulen' turn (L.) ; no barren shoots, spikelets about 6- 

 flowered equalling or shorter than the gl., lower pale awned, fl. 

 tumid with fruit. E.E. 1124. P. 142. St. erect. Liguleshort. 

 Upper gl. usually present, often bifid. a ; awns as long as or 

 longer than the pale. ft. L. arvense (With.) ; fl. 4 5 without 

 or with short awns. E. B. 1125. Cultivated fields. A. VI. 

 VIII. Darnel. E. S. I. 



