204 LOLIUM PEBENNE. 



cloven at either extremity. Length from fifteen to twenty-four inches. 

 Root perennial and fibrous. 



Flowers in the middle of June, and ripens its seed at the commence- 

 ment of July. 



Var. angustifolium. Tall and slender; leaves narrow and long. 



Var. racemosum. Having the spikelets pedunculated. 



Var. tenue. Dwarf, with spikelets of three or four florets. 



The specimen illustrated was gathered at Highfield House. 



