630 POACILE 



An annual, taller and more vif?orous than the apocica; floral 

 glumes turniinatod hy slondur awns. Muoh employed in Great 

 Hritain for irri«j;ated nu'iidows. Sec ]). 101, Vol. I. 



Michi^iiin, Chirk 1081, jSml 15'), 156. 



3. L. TKMLLKNTl M L. .Sp. IM. 83 (175:}). POISOX-DAUXKL. 



L. aujupliriiHi liell. Kouv. Mouog. 4:}. A. idhim Steud. Noin. 

 Ed. 1, 4!>:> (18'M). A. (iHiniiiiii liiini. Fl. Fr. :):(5v!0 (1TT8). L. 

 (lenpii'iis Diim. Ohs. (iniiii. liol^. l>8 (18->;}). L. infrlix KNniv. 

 Moiio.ii-. ;>!). L. hidduin Diim. 1. c. ; and other syiionynis. 



Aiimiid; taller and stouter than L. perciine. Empty .diimes 

 equal or usually exceeding the 5-7-now('red .spikelet; floral -rlume 

 shorter, hroader, firmer and more turgid than in L. jHiritne, 

 usuiilly termiuatiug in an awn as long as tlie spikelet. 



Europe, north Africa, west Siberia, India; introduced into 



North America. 



A wei'd in waste phices, seldom very common. Said to he very 

 poisonous, though this statement is (pu'stioned hy many. 



Delaware, ('(iii/>i/ for Scribner 3527', Virginiii, Chich-rimj for 

 U. S. I)ei)t. Agricul. 700. 



Var. AUVi'NSK (With.). L. arreiise With. Arr. Brit. PI. Ed. 



3, '-3:108 {\':\m). 



Si)ikelets more turgid, awn very short or none. 



Europe. 



(15)4). JouVEAFourn. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15:475 (1870). 



"Si)ikelets unisexual, dia-cious, very dissimilar, the staminate 

 cues comi)ressed, many-llowered. spikatc on slender terminal or lat- 

 eral pedicels, rachilla continuous. Empty glumes 2, thin, the 

 second 1-ncrved and longer than the first (in old specimens the 

 empty glumes, particularly the first, are rarely present) ; flowering 

 <dumes lonsxer and broader, carinate, acute, herhacco-ohartaceous, 

 3-nerved; palea broad and jiromiiK'ntly 24:eeled. Stamens 3. 

 Female spikes 1-several in terminal fascicles on the culm or its 

 branches, enclosed below by the leaf-sheaths or broad prophyllii, 

 terete, acute, articulated at base and falling off entire. Spike- 

 lets 1-flowered. embedded in the contimious riiohis. adnate below. 

 Outer glume cartilaginous, abruptly narrowed towards the free 



