PLend.ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 47. Elymus. 95 



Culm erect, 2 feet liigh, striated, bald, leafy at bottom ; 

 leaves spreading; sheaths ribbed, rather bellied; ligida 

 small, crenulate; spike about 2 in. long, blunt, close set; 

 Jioivrets mostly perfect, bearded ; beards twice as long as 

 the flowret ; locustce subpedicelled, twoflovvered, often only 

 onejflowered, as long as the spathelles. • 



VII. 48. LOLIUM. Pliny. Darnel 



Locustce sessile, 1-glumed; terminal locitsta 2-glumed; 

 glumes opposite ; lower spaihelle pointed at the tip, or with 

 a bristle ; upper spaihelle membranous, 2-cut, toothed j 

 lodicule 2-teethed ; teeth unequal; ovary rather 3-sided; 

 stigmata feathered ; cariopsis hnsked, furrowed, — Rachis 

 jointedj toothed, spiked; spike compound, 



1, Lolium perenne. Lasting darnel. 



Spike beardless; locustce longer than the glume; root 

 perennial. 



Lolium q. Gramen loliaceiim, angustiore folio €t spica, Maii Sytu 395,2, 



Lolium rubrum, Ger. em. 78. 



Lolium rubrum, sive Phoenix, Park. 1145. 



Lolium perenne, Lin. S. P. 122. 



Ray-grass. Red dame!. Crap. 



Meadows, pathsides, and cultivated ; perennial ; June. 



Culm a foot high ; leaves deep green ; spike nearly erectj 

 2-rowed, compressed ; rackis bent alternately to take in the 

 locustae; locustce alternate, erect, ovate, compressed, many- 

 jflowered ; glume of one spathelle, lanceolate, not bearded, 

 smooth, sometimes viviparous. 



^. tejiue, Locustce few-flowered. 



Lolium tenue, Lin. S. P. 122. 



Leaves and spike thin ; locustce 3 or 4-flowered, not much 

 compressed, yet longer than the glnme. 

 In barren soils. 



y, paniculatum. Spike branched at bottom. 



Lolium q. Gramen loliaceiim paniculatum, Raii Syn. 395,3. 

 ^ Phoenix multiplici spicata pauicula. Park. 1146. 



3". composilnm. Spike compound, very short, 7 to 

 9-flowered, compressed, crowded. 



t. viviparum. Glume and glumelle changed into leaves. 



K. purpurascens. Locustce purplish green. 



