158 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bromus. 



coloured anthers. Both valves of the corolla acute, cloven ; the 

 outer one lanceolate, angular, smooth or downy, more or less 

 compressed, with two strong distant ribs, and 1 or 2 short slight 

 ones, at each side, ylwn from just below the membranous point, 

 stout and straight. Styles rather distant. Neetanj acute, deeply 

 cloven, tumid at the base. 



8. B. asper. Hairy Wood Broine-grass. 



Panicle drooping, branched. Spikelets linear-oblong. Flo- 

 rets about eight, rather distant, lanceolate, compressed, 

 downy. Awns shorter than the glumes. Leaves uni- 

 form ; lower ones hauy. 



B. asper. Linn. Suppl. 41 1 . fVilld. v. 1 . 432. Fl. Br. 133. Engl. 



Bot.v.17. t. 1172. Tr.ofLinn.Soc.v.4.29'3. Mart.Rust.t. 126 



Knapp t. 8.5. Hook. Scot. 42. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 360. Host 



Gram. v. I. 6. t. 7. Ehrh. Phyl. 42. 

 B. ramosus. Linn. Syst. J'eg. ed. 13. .'02 ; but not Mant. 34. 



Cullum 40. 

 B. nemoralis. Huds. 51. 

 B. nemorosus. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 1 17. 

 B. hirsutus. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t.8. 

 B. montanus. Pollich v. 1. 116. Retz. Obs.fasc. 2. 7. 

 Poa n. 44. Gmel. Sib. v.l.WO. t.2] ; from the author. 

 Gramen avenaceum dumetorum, panicula sparsa. Raii Syn. 415. 

 G. avenaceum dumetorum paniculatum majus hirsutum. Moris. 



«;. 3. 213. sect.S. t.7.f.27. 



In moist woods and hedges. 



Annual, or biennial. July, August. 



Root of many stout, pale, spreading fibres. Stem erect, from 4 to 

 6 feet high, round, leafy ; smooth in the upper part. Leaves 

 spreading, deep green, lanceolate, pointed, harsh, many-ribbed, 

 a foot long, and | of an inch broad, fringed at the edges, espe- 

 cially towards the base, with coarse rigid hairs, variously di- 

 rected. Sheaths ribbed, mostly very rough, with deflexed hairs. 

 Stipula short, obtuse. Pa?iic/e a foot long, widely spreading; 

 the branches seldom more than 2 or 3 together, very rough, the 

 larger ones alternately subdivided. Spikelets obliquely pendu- 

 lous, about an inch long, compressed. Calyx-valves very un- 

 equal, pointed, compressed ; the outer smallest, single-ribbed ; 

 inner with 3 ribs, hairy toward.s the margin. Outer valve of the 

 corolla resembling the inner one of the calyx, hairy in like man- 

 ner at the margin, but with 2 slight intermediate smooth ribs ; 

 the keel extended into a nearly straight, stout, rough awn, 

 shorter than the glume, scarcely distinguishable at the origin 

 from its very slender cloven point ; inner valve concave, shorter, 

 but not much narrower, obtuse, the ribs finely and rather closely 

 fringed, iVec^ deeply cloven . -,S7?/te very short. Stigmas densely 



