LOLIUM TEMTTLENTUM. 207 



LOLIUM TEMULENTUM. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. 

 DEAKIN. LINDLEY. SINCLAIR. KOCH. BABINGTON. SCHRADER. HOST. 



WlLLDENOW. KNAP?. SCHREBER. LEERS. 



OEDER. EHRHART. BULL. HUDSON. WITHERING. HULL. ABBOT. 

 RELHAN. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE LXVIII. A. 



Lolium arvense, WITHERING. HULL. SMITH. LINDLEY. 



HOOKER. KNAPP. SCHRADER. HOST. 

 " RELHAN. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



" album, GERARDE. RAY. 



" verum, GESNERI. MORISON. 



Darnel or Bearded Rye-Grass. 



Lolium Darnel. Temulentum Drunken, in allusion to the 



poisonous, sleepy property of the seeds. 



NOT only a useless Grass, but a noxious weed, especially in corn- 

 fields. 



The seeds are said to be poisonous. 



Not common in Scotland and Ireland, yet frequent in England, and 

 found in the counties of Devon, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Cambridge, 

 Suffolk, Bedford, Worcester, Nottingham, York, Durham, and North- 

 umberland. In Wales in Carnarvonshire, and the Island of Anglesea. 

 Also a native of France, Italy, Germany, Japan, South America, Norway, 

 Sweden, and North Africa. 



Stem circular, having four flat, lanceolate, acute, rough, minutely- 

 toothed leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the upper one being 

 shorter than its leaf, and having a brief blunt ligule at its apex. Joints 

 smooth, and four in number. Inflorescence spiked. Spike upright. 

 Spikelets sessile, placed alternately in two rows of four or five awned 



