34 PHLEUM BOEHMERL 



Ovarium hirsute, scales bold, styles two, stigmas feathery, stamens 

 three. Length from six to eighteen inches. 



Flowers in July, and the seeds become ripe about the middle of 

 August. 



The present species differs from Phleum asperum in not having the 

 glumes cuneate, in not having a long and pointed ligule, and in having 

 the keels fringed. It differs from P. arenarium in having the floret 

 entire instead of jagged at the apex, in the floret being much longer 

 in comparison to the glumes, and in the inner edges of the glumes 

 not being fringed with diminutive hairs as in P. arenarium. From 

 P. michelii in having more linear-shaped glumes, and in having only 

 the upper portions of the keels hirsute, instead of throughout their 

 whole length, as in P. miclielii; whilst from P. pratense it differs in 

 the glumes being pointed and destitute of awns, and the inner edges 

 ending obliquely instead of abruptly. Also in the exterior palea having 

 the apex entire instead of jagged, as in P. pratense. 



The specimen illustrated was procured in Norfolk by Mr. Joseph 

 Sidebotham, of Manchester. 



