PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 59. Brachypod. 113 



2. Br achy podium sylvaticum. Wood shortfoot. 



Spike rather drooping, 2-rowed ; locustce. villose, I'ather 

 remote, upright, bristled; bristles short; upper longer 

 than the glumelle; spathellides pointed; leaves pilose; sheaths 

 pubescent. 



Gramen avenaceum dumetoruni spicatum, Rail Si/n. 394. 

 Festuca pinnata jS, Huds. Fl. Ang. 48. 

 Festuca gracilis, Moench Meth. 191, 

 Festuca sylvatica, Huds. ed, 1. 

 BroHius gracilis, Weigel Ohs. 16. 

 Bromus pinnatus, Fl. Dan. 164. 

 Bromus dumosus, Villars Delph. 2, 119. 

 Bromus sylvaticus, Pollich. 1, 118; 

 Triticum sylvaticum, De Cdnd. Syn. Fl. Fr. 1665. 



Triticum teretifoliuOTj Web. Werth. 104. But all the synonymee ar« 

 doubtful. 



Woods, hedges, and fields; perennial; June. 



Rooi fibrous, tufted ; culms 3 feet high ; knots very vil- 

 lose; leaves flat, long, soft; ligula short, obtuse; locustce 

 6 or 9-flowered ; spathelles acute, lower 5-ribbed ; spathel- 

 lides acute, outer 7-ribbed. 



^. pulescens. Locustce pubescent, 



Bromus gracilis, Willd. Sp. PL 1,458. 

 Festuca gracilis, Koel. Gram, 267. 

 Triticum gracile, De Cand. Syn. Fl. Fr. 1664. 

 Bromus sylvaticus /8, Gaud. Agr. Helv. 281. 

 Festuca gracilis, B, Schrad. Germ. 1, 343. 



b. Locustce sessile, facing one way. 



- S. Brachypodium loUaceum. Darnel shortfoot. 



Spike upright, not branched ; rachis fiexuose ; locustcB, 

 smooth, oblong, blunt, awnless, facing one way; glume 

 3-ribbed, manyflowered ; root fibrous ; culms many, tufted. 



Lolium q. Gramen pumilum loliaceo simile, Rail Syn. 395,4. 



Poa loliacea, Huds. Fl yingl. 43. 



Triticum unilaterale, AUon Hort. Kew. 1, 122. 



Triticum loliaceum, Engl. Bot. 221. 



Triticum Rotfbollia, Be Cand. Syn. Fl. Fr. 1669. 



Dwarf sea wheat-grass. 



Sea-shore ; annual ; June and July. 



Culm stiff, branchy, ascending, smooth^ S in. high; leaves 

 flat, becoming revolute ; sheaths smooth ; ligula short ; spike 

 stiff, in sunny places brownish. 



4. Brnchy podium ramosum. Branched shortfoot. 



Spi/^e branched at bottom: rachis compressed; locustce 

 oblong, smooth, blunt, awnless, facing QXiQ vi ay i glume 

 3-ribbed, manyflowered ; I'oot fibrous. 



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