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BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM. 



Beauvais. Hooker and Aenott. Lindley. Deakin. 

 Koch. Babington. 



PI-ATE LXVl. A. 



Festuca syhatica, Smith. Sinclair. Hudson. Maetyn. 



" " Knapp. Dickson. Liohtfoot. 



" " Withering. Relhan. Sibthorp. 



" gracilis, Mcench. Schbadee. 



Bromus sylvaticus, Pollich. Smith. Hull. Hooker. 



" " Sinclair. Pouehet. Host. 



" gracilis, Weigel. Roth. Willdenow. 



" " Ehehaet. 



Trilicum sylvaticum, Mcench. Parnell. Kunth. 



" " Maceeight. 



The Slender False Br ome- Grass. 



Brachypodium — Short foot. Sylvaticum — A wood. 



Beachypodium. Beauvais. — The False Brome-Grass is named from the 

 Greek, and signifies short-footed. This genus is intermediate between 

 Bromus and Triticum. There are two British examples. 



Of no agricultural use, growing in damp shady situations; 

 common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Eussia. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five 

 broad sharp-pointed polished leaves, with hirsute striated 

 sheaths, upper leaf extending beyond its sheath, and having 

 a blunt hirsute ligule at its apex. Joints hairy, and four in 

 number. Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets lengthy and cylin- 



