118 61. Zerna. 10. GRAMINE^. PLend,pk, 



Sandy places, sides of walls ; annual ; June. 



Root fibrous ; culm 1 foot high, upi'ight, slender, leafy ; 

 sheaths rather keeled ; llgula short ; peduncle 3 inches long, 

 upright, bundled; hranches 3 to 6, mostly simple, one- 

 flowered, upright; locustce upright, brownish. 



|3. tnandra. Stamens 3. 



XXI. 62. BROMUS. Theophrastus. Brmie, 



Glumes manyflowered \fioivrets crowded, imbricate, much 

 shorter than the glumelles; spathelles alternate, oval, 

 lanceolate ; lower 5-ribbed ; upper many-ribbed, bristled ; 

 glumelles awned ; lower spathellule, ovate, 5 to 9-ribbed, 

 apex cordately lobed, awn straight below the tip ; upper 

 flat oblong ; lodiade ovate, not notched, smooth ; ovary 

 obtuse; stigmata feathered; carlopsis husked, furrowed.—? 

 Panicle compound ; locustce ovate. 



1 . Bromus arvensis. Field Irome. 

 Panicle spreading, drooping, compound ; peduncles 



branched, long; locustcB lanceolate, acute; spathellules e\- 

 liptical, imbricate, depressed, smoothish, with 2 close ribs 

 on each side; awn straight, shorter than the flowrets; leaves 

 slightly downy. 



Festuca aveuacea q. Festuca elatior, paniculis minus sparsis, lociistig 

 oblongis silicosis, aristis purpureis splendentibus Dpody, Raii Syn. 414, 9. 

 Bromus arvensis, Lin. S. P. 113. 

 Avena arvensis, Salisb. Prodr. 23. 

 Bromus versicolor, Pollich Palat. 109. 

 Bromus spiciila tenuata, Knapp Gram. 81. 

 Bromus leptostacliyos, Hull Brit. F.l. ed.2,32. 



Corn-fields; annual; August. 



Root fibrous; culm 3 feet high, upright; leaves spreading; 

 peduncles first upright, afterward drooping, with 6 to 12 

 locustas; lower bracteate; hractece 2, falling off. 



2. Bromus pratemis. Meadow brome* 

 Panicle spreading, rather erect, branched ; peduncles 



long, scarcely branched ; locustce ovate, turgid ; spathellules 

 elliptical, broad, imbricate, smoothish, with 3 equidistant 

 ribs on each side; au>7i as long as the flowret; leaves pilose; 

 lower sheath tomentose. 



Bromus pratensis, Ehrh. Calam. 116. 



Bromus arvensis, Engl. Bot. 920. 



Bromus elongatus, Gaud. Agrost. Helv. 305. 



Fields; annual; June. 



Culm 2 feet high; panicle small, upright. 



