BROMUS. 



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banks, rocks, and walls, and in the latter two situa- 

 tions it is only about six inches high. Its spikelets 

 resemble those of the Barren 

 Brome-grass, but they are 

 upright instead of nodding, 

 and they stand on short, 

 firm footstalks, instead of 

 long drooping ones ; besides 

 these differences, the erect 

 growth, and close panicle, 

 and the smoothness of the 

 stem and footstalk are suf- 

 ficiently distinct character- 

 istics. It is a pretty com- 

 pact little grass, its beard 

 seeming wonderfully long for so small a herb. About 

 Clifton it grows freely, and in rocky places in Gloucester- 

 shire, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, and Devon. 



It is not found in Ireland, except in county Tipperary. 



Its foreign homes are Germany, Italy, France, and 

 Switzerland. 



It flowers late in June, and its seeds are ripe at the 

 end of July. 



6. Bromus arvensis, Linn. Field Brome. 



(B. pratensis, B. commutatus, Eng. Bot. ; B. patulus, Brit. 

 Fl. ; Serrafalcus, Bab. Man.) 



Boot annual, fibrous, small; stems two or three feet, 

 numerous, leafy, striated, smooth, hard, nearly solid, a little 

 hairy just beneath the panicle ; joints several, hairy, mostly 

 covered by the sheaths ; leaves a little downy on both sides, 

 rough at the edges, striated, narrow, flat, pointed ; sheaths 

 thickly clothed with soft hairs, pointing downwards, shorter 



