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HORDEUM PEATENSE. 



Hudson. Hooker and Aenott. Smith. Etjnth. 



Deakin. Paenbll. Lindley. Eblhan. Maettn. Knapp. Sinclair. 



Maceeight. Scheadee. Ehbhaet. Witheeino. Sibthoep. 



Babinoton. Eeichenbach. 



PLATE LXm.- 



Hordeum nodosum, EocH. Linn^us. 



WinDENow. Host. 



•' maritimum. Order. 



Gramen secalinum. GtEEarde. Hay. 



Tlie Meadow Barley. 



Hordeum— F Pratense—A. field. 



FotrND in moist meadows and pastures in the counties of 

 Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, SuiFolk, Cambridge, 

 Bedford, Oxford, Leicester, Worcester, Warwick, Nottingham- 

 shire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Flint, 

 and Denbigh. In Scotland rare — near Edinburgh; occasionally 

 in Ireland. Extending into central Europe. 



An early species, and although common in Norfolk pastures 

 is not considered a profitable agricultural Grass. 



Stem circular, smooth, upright, and polished, carrying four 

 or five linear, flat, somewhat hirsute leaves, with smooth stri- 

 ated sheaths; the upper one being longer in its leaf, and 

 having a very brief ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. Inflor- 

 escence spiked. Spikes dense, and an inch and a half long. 

 Hachis dentate. Spikelets in threes on each tooth of the 

 rachis. Calyx of central spikelet consisting of two equal- 



