GRASS FAMILY. 889 
the terminal spikelet) | eng one and that on the outer side :—otherwise 
much resembling Trit 
1. L. prren’ne, L, Spike elets compressed, linear-lanceolate, longer than 
the glumes, ation? 7-flowered,—the florets coma fiers eat 
Prrenniat Loum. Ray-grass, or Rye-grass. 
Fr. Iyraie vivace. “Con. Ausdauernder Lolch. gna Joyo. 
Root perennial, creeping. Qulm 1-2 feet high, smooth. Leaves 4-8 or 10 inches long, 
lance- tinea” shining green, smooth, somewhat scabrous sone the — gre mene at 
glabrous ; ligule truncate. Spike about 6 inches long, flexu 
concave opposite the spikelets leis 12-18 or 20, a ite distant, aornabely ad Op 
posite sides of, and with their edges to, the rachis Glumes to each spikelet (except 
the iteae mina nal one , lance-linear, acute , nerved, resemblin ing a oer rt ‘gid leaf. 
rather pick we obscure ly 5- nerved ; + upper palea a little longer, ciliate-serrulate on the two 
a at kee 31s. 
Meadow banks and grass lots: introduged. Native of Europe. Fl. June. Fr. July. 
our farmers. It affords a valuable pasture where t 
such situati roducing radical leaves in great luxuriance ; and 
og and lawns. 
which the seeds are said to be som ew but Abiet ons. 
instance known, in all the Grainitiaes! in which the aan adictnsts 
— 
some other species ; great superiority S ean Ss it in ae 2, but 
not enough ee of it, in OR Lidaoaae to decide whether it is equal 
to the grasses already in cultiva 
19. TRIT’ICUM, L. Wueat. 
(Latin, tritus, a rubbing or grinding ; the grain being so treated.) 
Spikelets Cli flowered, er pecs with the Bond ged side against the 
rachis. Glumes nearly equal and opposite. namie & very like the 
Tumes, conv: upper one flat, bristly- 
ciliate on the 2 keels, free or adherent to the groove of the nad 
Stamens 3. Annuals or perennials, the rook furnishing bread-corn. 
* Annual : spike 4-sided : glumes ventricose, obtuse. (True WuHEAr.) 
1. T. voxea’re, Vill. Spike imbricated, ice a tough rachis ; Hie scars 
4 —5-flowered, rather crowded, broad-ovate, ; glumes vent 
mucronate, compressed a apex ; lower palea awed, — or awn- e 
less ; grain free. 
