BROMUS MOLLIS. 



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BROMUS MOLLIS. 



LINN^US. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. H. WATSON. PARNELL. CURTIS. 



WILLDENOW. MARTYN. KNAPP. SINCLAIR. 

 SCHRADER. HOST. SCHREBER. LEERS. EHRHART. WEIGEL. LlNDLEY. 



KOCH. GREVILLE. HULL. RELHAN. 

 SIBTHORP. ABBOT. MACREIGHT. KUNTH. RALFS. DEAKIN. 



PLATE LVII. A. 



Serrafalcus moth's, 

 Bromus polymorphus, 



" hordeaceus, 



" nanus, 



PARLATORE. BABINGTON. 

 HUDSON. WITHERING. 

 LINNAEUS. 

 WEIGEL. 



The Soft Brome-Grass. 

 Bromus Food. Mollis Soft. 



A USELESS species, growing on poor land. 



-A_ Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Found also in 

 France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, North 

 Africa and North America. 



Stem hairy, upright, and circular, carrying three or four flat, linear- 

 lanceolate, striated, hairy leaves, with striated sheaths, having a small 

 obtuse jagged ligule. Joints four or five, in some degree hirsute. 

 Inflorescence racemed or simple-panicled. Raceme upright; branches 

 rough and hirsute, basal ones mostly in threes. Spikelets upright, 

 ovate in form, deep green in colour, and mostly of ten awned florets. 

 The apex of large glume midway between its base and the apex of 

 the third floret. Calyx of two broad hirsute glumes; upper one seven- 

 ribbed, lower ones five-ribbed, ending in a rough awn, mostly bifid 

 at the summit. 



Length from twelve to eighteen inches. Root annual and fibrous. 



Blooms in the last week of May, and ripens its seed in the middle 

 of June. 



