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LOLIUM TEMULENTUM. 



LINN^TUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. 

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



WlLLDENOW. KNAPP. SCHREBER. LEERS. 



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

 KELHAN. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE LXVIII A. 



Lolium arvense, WITHERING. HULL. SMITH. LINDLEY. 



" " HOOKER. KNAPP. SCHRADER. HOST. 



" " RELHAN. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



" album, GERARDE. BAY. 



" 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 Northumberland. 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, mi- 

 nutely-toothed leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the upper 



