28 TRIAXDRIA DIGYNIA. Bromus. 



plain side towards the culm, nearly cylindrical. Awns 

 shorter than their glumes. Leaves nearly smooth. 

 Root somewhat creeping. Bromus pinnatus. E. B. 

 730. 



Open fields, heaths on a chalky soil. Sm. Woodstock Park. Sh. 

 Copses and hedges, common enough about Oxford. D. Bohart. 

 in Rail ^ynop. Ed. 3rd. Burford Downs. Goodenough. Shad- 

 well Copse. Between Upper He}"ford, and Northbrook, &c. Bz. 



Per. July. 



Whole plant more rigid, and less hairy than the last, the .spike more 

 elegant, erect, and smooth. Sm. Joints smooth, silvery, spike- 

 lets not as in F. syhatica, close pressed to the spike-stalk, but 

 very distant. 

 Geological strata may be marked through this plant in the 



surface without excavation. Sedgwick in Geol. Trans. See WincK s 



Transactions of Nor thumher land. 



BROMUS. Brome-Grass. 



B. secalinus. Smooth Rye Br. Panicle spreading ; 

 slightly subdivided below. Spikelets oblong-egg-shaped, 

 of about ten, distinct, somewhat cyhndrical, smooth, 

 somewhat remote florets. Awns w^avy, shorter than 

 the glumes. Leaves slightly hairy. Spike half an inch. 

 E. B. 1171. 



Cornfields. 

 An. May. 



A useless, and rather troublesome weed in arable land. Sv:ayne. 



B. mollis. Soft Br. Panicle erect, rather close, com- 

 pound. Spikelets egg-shaped, downy. Florets tiled, 

 depressed, ribbed. Awns straight, as long as the 

 glumes. Leaves and sheaths very soft and downy. 

 E. B. 1078. C. 1. 8. 



Walls, pastures. 

 Bien.? May. 



Crop of herbage small, and of little value. Sinclair. 



B. racemosus. Smooth Br. Panicle nearly erect, 

 spreading, simple. Spikelets egg-shaped-oblong, smooth. 

 Florets tiled, depressed, ribbed. Awns as long as the 

 glumes. Leaves somewhat downy. E. B. 1079. B. 

 prateiisis. E. B. 1984. B. arvensis. E. B. 920. 



Mea.dov:s and paMures. Christ Church, and Merton Meadows, 

 Oxford. Cowley Fields. Cheney Lane. Meadows between 

 St. Clement's and Iffley. Bx. 



