BEACHYPODIUM PINNATUM. 



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BRACHYPODIUM PINNATUM. 



BEAUVOIS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. LINDLEY. DEAKIN. BABINGTON. 



PLATE LXVI. B. 



Festuca pinnata, 

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Bromus pinnatus, 







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Triticum pinnatum, 



HUDSON. SMITH. SINCLAIR. KNAPP. 



DlCKSON. SCHRADER. RELHAN. 



SIBTHORP. ABBOT. 



LINNJEUS. SMITH. WILLDENOW. 



RELHAN. SINCLAIR. POLLICH. 



WEIGEL. HOST. LEERS. 



HUDSON. HULL. 



MOSNCH. PARNELL. KUNTH. 



MACREIGHT. 



The Heath False Brome- Grass. 



Brachypodium Short foot. 



Pinnatum Feathered. 



A USELESS agricultural Grass, growing on commons and on heathy 

 --LA_ situations, and preferring a chalk soil. 



Frequent in the counties of Devon, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, 

 Bedford, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Gloucester, 

 Worcester, Leicester, York, and Cumberland. 



Native of Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and 

 Portugal. 



Very subject to variety. 



Stem delicate, upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five 

 lengthy linear rough leaves, with striated sheaths; upper one shorter 

 than its leaf. Ligules brief. Joints hirsute. Inflorescence racemed. 

 Spikelets upright, long, and linear, generally of ten awned florets and 

 two glumes. Glumes smooth, unequal, and seven-ribbed. Floret of 

 two paleae, exterior one of basal floret longer than the large glume. 



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