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BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM. 



BEAUVAIS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. LINDLEY. DEAKIN. KOCH. 



BABINGTON. 



PLATE LXVI. A. 



Festuca sylvatica, SMITH. SINCLAIR. HUDSON. MARTYN. 



KNAPP. DICKSON. LIGHTFOOT. 

 WITHERING. RELHAN. SIBTHORP. 



" gracilts, MOZNCH. SCHRADER. 



Bromus sylvatica, POLLICH. SMITH. HULL. HOOKER. 



" SINCLAIR. POURRET. HOST. 



" gracilis, WEIGEL. ROTH. WILLDENOW. 



" " EHRHART. 



Triticum sylvaticum, MCENCH. PARNELL. KUNTH. 



" " MACREIGHT. 



The Slender False Brome- Grass. 

 Brachypodium Short foot. Sylvaticum A wood. 



BRACHYPODIUM. Beauvais. The False Brome-Grass is named from the 

 Greek, and signifies short-footed. This genus is intermediate between Bromus 

 and Triticum There are two British examples. 



OF no agricultural use, growing in damp shady situations; common 

 in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia. 

 Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five broad sharp- 

 pointed polished leaves, with hirsute striated sheaths, upper leaf ex- 

 tending beyond its sheath, and having a blunt hirsute ligule at its 

 apex. Joints hairy, and four in number. Inflorescence racemed. 

 Spikelets lengthy and cylindrical, generally of ten awned florets, placed 



