APPENDIX. 1087 



The panicle is fix inches long, branched, and 

 open. 



The fpicuU are above half an inch long, large, 

 oval, and dlftichous, erefl at liril, but nod- 

 ding when big with feeds, compounded each of 

 ei[ nt, ten, or twelve fiov/ers, of a green color, 

 cov: red v>'ith {hort downy, hairs which wear off 

 by age. 



The val/es of the calyx are unequal, one being 

 oval ^-nd pointed, the other narrower and lan- 

 ceolate. 



The exterior val/e of the corolla is convex, obtufe, 

 and tunfiid, furnifli'd on the back with a ilraight 

 beard, anfing a little below the apex, and 

 about two thirds of the valve in length. 



If the feeds of this grafs be mix'd with the corn 

 in any great quantity, they will render the 

 bread difagreeably bitter. 



The common people in Sweden entertain an ab- 

 furd notion, that rye is often converted into 

 this grafs. 



BROMUS panicula nutante fcabra, fpiculis vil- 

 lofis ariilatis, foliis fcabris. Syfi. nat. edit. 13. 

 fag. 102. Hudf. Aug. p. 40. (Moris, hijt. 

 Ox.feSl. 8. /. 7./. 27.) 



Great branched Bromc-grafs. Anglis. 



In woods and hedges but rare in Scotland. We 

 10 found 



