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HORDEUM PRATENSE. 



HUDSON. HOOKER AND AENOTT. SMITH. KUNTH. 



DEAKIN. PAENELL. LINDLEY. EELHAN. MAETYN. KNAPP. SINCLAIE. 



MACEEIGHT. SCHEADEE. EHBHAET. WITHERING. SIBTHOEP. 



BABINGTON. REICHENBACH. 



PLATE LXIIl. A. 



Ifordeum nodosum, KOCH. LINNJKTJS. 



. " secalinum, WILLDENOW. HOST. 



" maritimiim, OEDER. 



Gramen secalinum, GEBAEDE. KAY. 



The Meadow Barley. 



Hordeum ? Pratense A field. 



FOUND in moist meadows and pastures in the counties of 

 Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, 

 Bedford, Oxford, Leicester, Worcester, Warwick, Nottingham- 

 shire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, . Flint, 

 and Denbigh. In Scotland rare near Edinburgh; occasionally 

 in Ireland. Extending into central Europe. 



An early species, and although common in Norfolk pastures 

 is not considered a profitable agricultural Grass. 



Stem circular, smooth, upright, and polished, carrying four 

 or five linear, flat, somewhat hirsute leaves, with smooth stri- 

 ated sheaths; the upper one being longer in its leaf, and 

 having a very brief ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. Inflor- 

 escence spiked. Spikes dense, and an inch and a half long. 

 Rachis dentate. Spikelets in threes on each tooth of the 

 rachis. Calyx of central spikelet consisting of two equal- 



