BEIZA MINOR. 137 



BRIZA MINOR. 



LINNJEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. J. E. SMITH. PARNELL. 

 BABINGTON. WITHERING. KOCH. KUNTH. REICHENBACH. DEAKIN. 



WlLLDENOW. SCHRADER. HOST. 

 HUDSON. HULL. DICKSON. MACREIGHT. RALFS. 



PLATE XLIII. 



Briza aspera, KNAPP. 



The Small Quaking Grass. 

 Briza To droop. Minor Less. 



AN exceedingly rare Grass, found near Bath, in Cornwall, and at 

 Clifton, Nottinghamshire. 



Native of Guernsey, Jersey, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, 

 Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Greece, and Northern Africa. 



It grows in dry sandy pastures. 



Stem circular, smooth and hollow, carrying five or six flat, acute, 

 roughish leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, upper one extending 

 beyond its leaf. Joints five in number. Inflorescence compound- 

 panicled, with roughish slender branches. Spikelets triangular, 

 compressed, green, white, and purple in colour, consisting of two 

 glumes and five or six florets. Glumes equal, broad, three-ribbed. 

 Florets consisting of two unequal palese; exterior one of basal floret 

 broad, gibbous behind, margin membranous, destitute of lateral ribs; 

 inner palea flat, and having two broad green ribs. Styles two. 

 Stigmas plumose. Filaments three. Anthers notched at either 

 extremity. 



Flowers in July, seeds ripen at the end of August. 



The specimen illustrated was gathered at Penzance, by Mr. Joseph 

 Sidebotham, of Manchester. 



