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360 ON TRITICUM PUNGENS. 
late, solid above, hollow in the lower internodes. Leaves rigid, 
erect, leathery, rough, glaucous, flat at their base and gradually more 
involute towards their ultimately pungent apex, faintly streaked and 
nearly smooth beneath, above furrowed into many sub-equal thick, 
deep, parallel ribs, each bearing one or two regular rows of asperities 
, 
which decline towards the apex of the leaf ; upper side of leaf glabrous 
rigid, stiff, short, compact. Rachis rough 
‘ Near the farm at New Salts, Shoreham, just across the 
orfolk suspension bridge. 
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onatum.—Glumes lanceolate acute, mucronate, about 
and larger than in var. ¢. pike shorter, densely and less sym- 
metrically arranged than in the other vars., the midway spikelets 0 
the spike often larger than the upper or lower ones. Uppermost 
ar. ¢. pycnanthum, Gren. & God E. ; 
lanceolate obtuse, subapiculate, rather less than half the length of the 
full-flowered Spikelets, with seabrous keels. Pales obtuse, truncate, 
than in the other vars. The leaves (especially the lower) flatter, 
less mvolute, and thinner than in the other vars. 
General in Sussex, though likely local elsewhere. Portslade, &¢- 
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