120 62. Bromus. 10. GRAMINEiE. PL end. ph. 



|3. nanus. Culm 2 in. high ; panicle fewflowered. 



Bromus nanus, Weigel Obs. 8. 



6. Bromus racemosus. Bunched hrome. 

 Panicle upright, diffuse; peduncles not branched, semi- 



verticillate ; locusicB ovate, oblong, rather compressed, bald ; 

 jiowrets imbricate, depressed ; aw7i straight, as long as the 

 glumelles; /eai/ej scarcely pubescent. 



Festuca avenacea spicis strigosioribus, e giumis glabris compactis, Raii 

 Si/n. 414,7. 



Festuca avenacea, q. Gramen avenaceum pratense, gliima fenuiore gla- 

 bra Bobarti, Raii Syn. 414,6. 



Bromus racemosus, jLi«. S. P. 114. 



Bromus polymorphus ;S et S, Huds. Fl. Angl. 49. 



Fields and pastures ; annual ; June. 



Culm slender, smooth; leaves pilose; sheaths hirsute; 

 panicle not branched ; peduncles long, not branched ; locustcB 

 shining, white and green. 



7. Bromus squarrosus. Scurfy hrome. 

 Panicle loose, not branched, nearly facing one waj'^, 



drooping at top; peduncles not branched, in pairs; locustce 

 ovate, lanceolate, rather compressed, very smooth ; Jiowrets 

 imbricate, depressed ; awn becoming divaricated ; leaves 

 pubescent. 



Bromus squarrosus, Lin. S. P. 112. 



Fields ; annual ; July. A doubtful native. 



Roots fibrous; culm 18 in. high, upright, smooth; leaves 

 and sheaths pubescent ; panicle rather racemose ; locusts 

 very large, shining. 



XXII. 63. FESTUCA. Fescue. 



Glume 2 to 15-flowered; spathelles parallel, nearly equal; 

 lower many-ribbed ; glumelles bristled ; lower spathellule 

 not notched, ending in a seta shorter than the glunielle; 

 upper 2-cu.i, toothed; lodicule ovate, not notched, hairy; 

 stamens 3; stigmata villose; cariopsis mostly husked, fur- 

 rowed. — Rachis jointed, panicled ; panicle branchy, facing 

 one way ; pedicels inflated, wedgeshape. 



a. Ligula very short, irwicated, 1-eared : leaves all 

 hrisilelike ; culm i<-uuQnlar. 



1. Festuca ovina. Sheeps fescue. 



Panicle spreading, becoming contracted; locustce- ovale, 

 4- or 5-flowered, bristled ; spatkellules roundish, smooth at 

 bottom, inner margin very smooth; leaves setaceous, rough. 



