BROMUS ASPER. 159 



BROMUS ASPER. 



LINN^US. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. GREVILLE. KOCH. 



LlNDLEY. WlLLDENOW. MARTYN. KNAPP. SCHRADER. 

 HOST. EHRHART. BABINGTON. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. DEAKIN. 



PLATE LII. 



Bromus ramosus, LINNJEUS. 



" nemoralt's, HUDSON. 



" nemorosus, VILLARS. 



" hirsutus, CURTIS. 



" montanus, POLLICH. RETZIUS. 



The Hairy Wood Bromus. 

 Bromus Food. Asper Rough. 



A COMMON, tall-growing, coarse Grass, found in damp shady woods, 

 -L\. and of scarcely any agricultural merits. 



Native of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. 



Stem upright, circular, and somewhat rough, carrying four or five 

 broad, flat, sharp-pointed, rough leaves, with striated hairy sheaths. 

 Joints five. Inflorescence simple-panicled. Panicle weeping in habit. 

 Spikelets one inch long, linear-lanceolate, of about eight awned glossy 

 brownish purple florets. Calyx of two unequal acute glumes, the upper 

 one longest and three-ribbed. Florets of two paleaa, exterior one of 

 basal floret longer than the calyx, summit bifid, five-ribbed, the dorsal 

 rib dentate, and ending in a long rough awn. Inner palea having two 

 green marginal ribs. Root annual or biannual, and fibrous. Length 

 from two to three feet. 



Blooms at the end of July, and seeds ripen at the end of August. 



The illustration is from a specimen forwarded by Dr. Wilson, of 

 Nottingham. 



