HORDEUM SYLVATICUM. 



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HORDEUM SYLVATICUM. 



HUDSON. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. BABINGTON. PARNELL. KNAPP. 

 MARTYN. ABBOT. DEAKIN. 



PLATE LXII. B. 



Elymus Europeus, 



LINNAEUS. SMITH. HOOKER. 



LlNDLEY. KOCH. WlLLDENOW. 



WITHERING. SCHRADER. HOST. 

 EHRHART. HULL. SIBTHORP. 

 KUNTH. REICHENBACH. 



The Wood Barley. 



Hordeum . 



Sylvaticum Wood. 



HORDEUM. Linnaeus. Spikelets in threes from the same joints of the 

 rachis. There are four British examples, all being known by the form of 

 their glumes. The Barley Grasses, under which designation these species 

 are known, are rare in Scotland. The name is of dubious origin. 



COHERING more especially in a chalky soil in woods in the 

 counties of Derby, York, Northumberland, Bucks., Herts., Hunts., 

 Wilts., Bedford, Oxford, and Denbigh. Native of France, Germany, 

 Italy, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden. 

 Of no agricultural value. 



Stem upright, circular, somewhat smooth, bearing four or five lanceolate, 

 rough, flat, pointed leaves, with rough striated sheaths, upper one ex- 

 tending beyond its leaf. Joints four. Inflorescence spiked, compact, 

 three inches long. Rachis rough, angular and dentate. Spikelets in 

 threes. Glumes three-ribbed, rough, equal, ending in a long rough 

 awn. Floret of two paleae, exterior one awned, rough, and five-ribbed; 

 base hirsute. Inner palea two-ribbed and of same length. Awn of 



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