114. 59. Brachypod. 10. GRAMINE^. Vlend.pk. 



Triticum maritimum, Lin. S^P, 128? 

 Triticum loliaceum; var. Knapp Gram, 114,2. 



Sandy shores near the sea. 



Culm ascending, 9 in. high ; spike 2 m. long ; Iranehes 

 alternate. 



XIX. 60. SCHEDONORUS. Beauvois. Scliedonoi-us, 

 Spathelles parallel, 5 to 15-flowered, shorter than the 

 flowrets; glunielles bristled; lower spathellule slightly notched 

 below the apex, toothed ; teeth often ending in a bristle ;. 

 upper 2-cut, toothed j lodicule lanceolate^ awlshape, not 

 notched, smooth ; stigmata villous ; cariopsis rather husked, 

 furrowed. — Rachis jointed, panicled; panicle racemose, 

 branched; pedicle inflated, wedgeshape; ligida rather eared; 

 leaves all flat. 



1. Schedonorus ioliaceus. Darnel schedonoi-us. 

 Panicle racemose, spiked, long, rather drooping ;. locusto^ 



remote, becoming spreading ; root fibrous. 



Triticum patens, Brot. Fl. Lus. 

 Festuca loliacea, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1 , 38. 

 Festuca fiuitans h, Huds. Fl. An^. 47. 

 Festuca elongata, Ehr. Beitr. 133. 

 Poa loliacea, Koel. 207. 



Moist pastures ; perennial ; June, July, 



Culm 2 feet high, smooth ; leaves flat ; ligida exserted, 

 blunt; rachis angular, rough; spikelet linear, oblong, 

 roundish, becoming compressed, 2-rowed ; cariopsis ad- 

 pressed to the rachis, flat ; outer spathellule 4 to 5-ribbed ; 

 inner 1 -ribbed. 



iP. compositus. Lower spikelets in pairs. 



2. Schedonorus pratensis. Meadow schedonorus. 

 Panicle spreading, branchy, rather upright, loose ; locustct 



linear, compressed, blunt ; root fibraus. 



Gramen pratense q. Gramen paniculatum elutius, sp^icls longi&muticii, 

 iquamosis, Rail Syn. 411, 16. 



Festuca pratensis, Hudt. Fl. Ang.ed. 1»37. 

 Festuca elatior, Lin. Fl. Suec. 39. 

 Festuca elatior 2, TVith. Bot. Arr, 

 Festuca fluitans y, Huds. Fl. Angl. 4T. 

 Bromus elatior, Koel. S14. 

 Poa curvata, KoeWiQl, 



Damp fields and meadows ; pereniiial ; June, July. 



Culm ascending, 2 feet hign; leaves pointed; sheaths 

 streaked, very smooth ; ligula short ; panicle upright : 

 branches mostly simple, rough ; locustce manyflowered : 

 fiuier glumes 3-ribbed ; spalhellules scarcely ribbed. 



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