164 BEOMUS SECALINUS. 



Length from eighteen to twenty-four inches. Root annual and 

 fibrous. 



Flowers in the first week, and becomes ripe in the last week in 

 June. 



There are two well-known varieties. 



Variety velutinus having large spikelets of from ten to fifteen florets. 



Variety vulgaris is frequently more than thirty-six inches in length. 



The illustration is from a specimen gathei-ed in Chorlton fields, near 

 Manchester, by Mr. Joseph Sidebotham. 



