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BROMUS ERECTUS. 



HUDSON. HOOKER AND AENOTT. SMITH. PAENELL. 



KOCH. LlNDLEY. DlCKSON. KNAPP. SlNCLAIE. SCHEADEE. OEDEE. 



KUNTH. BABINGTON. MACEEIGHT. DEAZIN. 



PLATE LI. 



JBromus agrestis, ALLIONI. HOST. 



" perennis, VILLAES. 



The Upright Oat-Grass. 



Sromus Food. Erectus Upright. 



BROMUS. Linnaus. The Brome-G-rass, of which there are a dozen 

 British species, has a lax panicle, with many-flowered laterally-compressed 

 spikelets. The name is derived from the Greek, signifying food; hence 

 the present word, which the Greeks used for one of the Oat-Grasses. 



A LARGE-GROWING species, of but little agricultural value. 



In England found in Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Nor- 

 folk, Cambridge, Oxford, Worcester, and Yorkshire. In the 

 Island of Anglesea, and occasionally in Ireland and Scotland. 



Found in Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, and Italy. 



Stem circular and smooth, habit erect; bearing four or five 

 linear, harsh, hairy, nearly erect leaves, with hairy sheaths, the 

 upper one having at its apex a brief ragged ligule. Joints 

 five. Inflorescence simple-panicled or racemed. Raceme upright 

 and compact. Spikelets upright, consisting of eight or nine 

 awned florets, tinged with brownish purple. Calyx of two equal- 

 sized acute glumes; upper one three-ribbed, basal one destitute 



