408 97. GRAMINE^. 



feet high. L. very long, broad, roughish on both sides, except 

 near the base on the under side. Ligule unequal, auricled. Lower 

 pale roughish, membranous, often bifid at the tip. Top of the 

 ovary glabrous. /3. F. triflora (Sm.) ; pan. smaller and more 

 erect, spikelets scattered of about 3 flowers. E. B. 1918. 

 Moist woods and thickets. P. VII. 



8. F. arundinacea (Schreb.) ; panicle diffuse patent, branches 

 mostly in pairs each bearing 2 or more ovate-oblong spikelets 

 divaricate with fl. or afterwards, spikelets very many of 5 6 

 closely placed fl., dorsal rib of lower pale ending at or just below 

 the tip or forming a short awn, 1. linear-lanceolate. F. elatior 

 Sm., E. B. 1593. P. 46, 4?. St. 26 ft. high, forming large 

 tufts. L. broad. There seem to be two forms of this plant, or 

 perhaps two species. a. F. arundinacea (Schreb.) ; pan.- 

 branches divaricate after flowering. A very large plant, 3 6 ft. 

 high. j8. F. elatior (L.?); pan. -branches shorter "divaricate 

 with fl. afterwards ascending." a. Banks near the sea. /3. Damp 

 pastures. P. VI. VII. 



9. F. pratensis (Huds.) ; pan. close subsecund, branches in 

 pairs one bearing a single spikelet the other several never diva- 

 ricate, 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. ela- 

 tior Koch. A smaller plant than the preceding. Pan. -branches 

 ascending ; one of each pair nearly always reduced to a single 

 spikelet. In this and the preceding the pale is obtuse or acute 

 according as the midrib is or is not attached up to the tip. /3. 

 F. loliacea (Huds.); spikelets solitary alternate long slender 

 truly distichous, lower ones stalked, upper sessile, fl. distant. E.B. 

 1821. P. 45, 113 and 114. Mr. Borrer considers these plants to 

 be distinct. They deserve careful study. Wet meadows. P. 

 VI. VII. 



43. BROMTJS Linn. 1 



* Spikelets broader upwards when in flower. Ribs of upper pale 

 finely fringed. 



1. B. erectus (Huds.); pan. erect nearly simple, spikelets 

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

 7 -veined, lowest fl. i exceeding the upper gl. and longer than its 

 awn, root-1. very narrow ciliate. E. B. 4/1. P- 51. St. 2 3 

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

 somewhat hairy with upward hairs. /3. villosus; lower pale 

 hairy. On dry sandy and chalky soil. P. VI. VII. 



1 Synonymous with the genus Schedonorus (Fries), not Beauv. 



