150 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bronius. 



awned. Florets from 6 to 9, or more, imbricated, somewhat cy- 

 lindrical ; keeled, ribbed, fringed, and hairy at the upper part, 

 with a terminal au-n ,- inner valve linear, flat, abrupt, inflexedat 

 the ribs, which are strongly fringed. Nect. of 2 acute scales. 

 Germen elliptical. Styles very short. Stigmas small, feathery. 

 Seed linear, channelled, quite unconnected with the glumes 

 which enfold it. 

 The perfectly loose seed has determined me to adopt the opinion 

 of those eminent botanists, who, contrary to my former deter- 

 mination, still refer this plant and the following to Festuca. The 

 narrow cylindrical Jlorets, and terminal awns, strengthen this 

 opinion ; though the inner valve of the corolla is, in F. sylvatica, 

 more strongly fringed than is proper to the present genus. The 

 original name, given by HudsoTi,is, however, more conveniently 

 retained for this species, than for my F. calamaria, n. 9, as hav- 

 ing been so generally in use. 



14. F. pinna/a. Spiked Heath Fescue-grass. 



Spike simple, erect, two-ranked. Spikelets nearly cylindri- 

 cal. Awns shorter than their glumes. Leaves nearly 

 smooth. Root somewhat creeping. 



F. pinnata. Huds. 4S. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 13. 8. Knappt.75. 

 Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 342. 



Bromus pinnatus. Linn. Sp. PI. 115. fVilld. v. 1. 438. Fl. 



Br. 137. Engl. Bot.v.W.t. 730. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 30i . 



Bel. Rudb. 1 1 . Sincl. 2/5. Poltich w. 1 . 1 1 7. fVeig. Obs. 1 4. 



t.l.f.lO. Host Gram. v.].\8. t. 22. Leers 39. t. ]0.f. 3. 

 Triticum n. 1431. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 212. 



Gramen spica brizse majus. Bauh. Prodr. 18./. Theatr. 133./. 

 Rail Syn. 392. Moris, v. 3. 205. 



G. loliaceum corniculatum. Scheuchz. AgT.3b. 



In open fields and heaths on a chalky soil. 



Not uncommon in Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, and Kent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root scaly, slightly creeping. Whole plant more rigid, and less 

 hairy than the last, the spike more elegant, erect, and smooth, 

 with more numerous Jlorets, whose awns are shorter than the 

 glumes, and sometimes scarcely evident. The inflexed edges of 

 the inner valve of the corolla almost meet, covering the seed, 

 though quite unconnected therewith ; their ribs are less strongly 

 fringed, than in F. sylvatica. 



52. BROMUS. Brome-grass. 



Linn. Gen. 36. Juss.32. Fl. Br. 125. Lam. t. 46. 

 Cal. of 2 unequal, ovate or lanceolate, acute, compressed, 

 awnless, many-ribbed valves, containing an ovate, or ob- 



