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Moist woods and hedges. Fl. June, July. Q or $ . Sm. (If. Schrad.) 

 — 4 — 6 f. high : lenves broad. 



3. B. steriliSi L. (barren Brome-grass); panicle drooping slight- 

 ly branched, spikelets linear lanceolate, florets remote subcylin- 

 drical scabrous shorter than the straight awn, leaves pubescent. 

 E. Bot. t. 1030. 



Waste ground, fields, and hedges ; common. Fl. June, July. ©. — 

 2 f. high. Remarkable for its long, narrow, much awned and drooping 

 spikelets. 



4. B. didndnis, Curt, (iipright annual Brome-grass') ; panicle 

 erect slightly branched, spikelets linear lanceolate, florets remote 

 subcylindrical subscabrous about as long as the straight awn, 

 stamens 2(3, *S'cAra(/.), leaves subglabrous. E. Bot. t.lQOQ. — 

 B. 3Iadritensis, Linn. 



Rare, on sandy barren wastes ; principally in the south of England. 

 About Kinross, Scotland ; \nyerV.e\i\\mg,Jiev. A.Robertson. Fl. June, 

 July. 0. — One foot high. Allied to B. sterilis ; but the panicle is 

 smaller, erect or erecto-patent, often purplish. 



5. B. mdximus, Desf. {great Brome-grass); "panicle erect lax at 

 length nodding, spikelets lanceolate downy, after flowering upon 

 long stalks, awns 2 or 3 times as long as the glumes, leaves 

 downy on both sides." Bab. in Engl. Bot. Svppl. ined. ej. Prim. 

 FL Sam. ined. 



On the sands of St Aubin's Bay ; the Greve d'Azette and the 

 Quenvais, Jersey. Babington and Christy. — Fl. June, July. ©.— Dis- 

 tinguished by its long awns." {Bab.) 



6. B. secdlimis, L. (smooth Bye- Brome-grass); panicle spread- 

 ing, peduncles but little branched, spikelets oblongo-ovate com- 

 pressed of about 1 subcylindrical glabrous rather remote florets 

 longer than the awn. E. Bot. t. 1171. 



Corn-fields ; not rare. Fl. July, Aug. 0.-2—3 feet high. Leaves 

 somewhat hairy. Cal. and ext. valve of cor. broadly ovate ; int. valve 

 bifid at the point, the margin strongly ciliated. When the seeds ripen, 

 the upper spikelets are pendulous, and the florets exhibit more evidently 

 their distant mode of insertion. 



7. B. velutinus, Schrad. (downy Rye- Brome-grass) ; "panicle 

 spreading scarcely subdivided, spikelets ovato-oblong of 10 — 15 

 crowded elliptical downy florets, awns as long as the glumes, 

 leaves slightly hairy." Sm. E. Fl. v. \. p. 152. — B. multijiorus, 

 E. Bot. t. 1884. 



Corn-fields, between Edinburgh and Newhaven, Sir J. E. Smith, 

 1782. F/. June, July. 0. 



8. B. mollis, L. (soft Brome-grass) ; panicle erect close com- 

 pound, spikelets ovate subcompressed, florets imbricated com- 

 pressed pubescent, awn straight about as long as the glume, 

 leaves very soft pubescent. E. Bot.t. 1078. — /3. spikelets and 

 sheaths of the leaves densely clothed with hairs. 



Meadows, pastures, banks, road-sides, fields, &c. every where.— /3. 

 sandy ground. Lizard, Cornwall, Mr Johns. JY.June. $ .— 1 — 2 f. high. 



