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BROMUS ARVENSIS. 



Koch. Smith. Lindlbt. Paenell. 

 plate lvi. 

 Serrafalcus arvensis. Godeon. Babington. 



The Taper Field Brome- Grass. 



Bromus — Food. Arvensis — Field. 



A RARE, and by some authorities considered a doubtful British 

 species. 



Found on the coast of Durham, at Hebden-Bridge, Yorkshire, 

 Southampton Bay, Box Hill, and about Edinburgh. 



Native of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Norway, 

 Germany, Sweden, Lapland, and Western Asia. 



An early Grass, and useful for sheep. 



Stem upright, circular, hard, bearing four or five narrow, 

 flat, hairy leaves, with striated sheaths, which are shorter than 

 their leaves. Joints four. Inflorescence simple-panicled; branches 

 rough. Spikelets linear-lanceolate, mostly of seven awned florets, 

 reddish brown in colour. Apex of large glume midway be- 

 tween the base of the glume and the apex of the second floret. 

 Glumes unequal, margins membranous, keels rough. Inner 

 glume largest, and five-ribbed; outer glume three-ribbed. Florets 

 of two palese, exterior one of basal floret longer than the glumes, 

 summit bifid or entire; margins membranous. Inner palea thin, 

 acute, white, membranous, and having two green ribs fringed 

 with colourless hairs. Awns upright and rough. Styles two. 



