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Bromus pratensis. (See Bromus erectus.) 
Bromus pumpellianus Scribn. Western Brome-grass. 
A native of the Northwestern States in the Rocky Mountain region extending into 
Canada. In habit of growth it closely resembles Hungarian or Awnless Brome- 
Eres (2 B. inermis) and is STARE equally valute. Prof. James Fletcher, who 
at Ottawa, Canada, says, “This 
is a very valuable grass, producing an E of leaves, continuing in flower 
for a long time, and giving a heavy afterm 
Bromus racemosus Linn. Smooth Brome-grass; Upright Chess. 
An introduced annual, 1 to 3 feet high, with more or less spreading and nodding pan- 
icles and smooth spikelets. This is a very common grass in cultivated fields and 
waste places, and is often mistaken for Chess, from which it differs chiefly in its 
Fic. 22.—Chess. (Bromus secalinus.) FIG. 23.—Rescue-grass. (Bromus unioloides.) 
narrower panicles and straight awns, which are nearly as long as the flowering 
glumes. is has become nd — in certain sections, particularly in 
the South. A field of it presents pp , and the hay produced 
is of good quali 
Bromus schraderi (See Bromus unioloides.) 
Bromus secalinus Linn. Chess; Cheat; Willard's Brome-grass. (Fig. 22.) 
A well-known weedy, annual grass, introduced into this country many years 
and now common in grain fields and waste lands. The panicle is spreading and 
Cheat or Chess is degenerated wheat has no foundation whatever in fact. Only 
Cheat seeds will produce Cheat, and it is certain that wherever these plants 
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