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BRACHYPODIUM PINNATUM. 



Beauvais. Hookee and Aenott. Lindley. Deakin. Babinoton. 

 plate lxvi. b. 



Festuca pinnata, Hudson. Smith. Sinclaie. Knapp. 



" " Dickson. Scheadeb. Eelhan. 



" " SiBTHOEp. Abbott. 



Bromus pinnatus, Linnaeus. Smith. Willdenow. 



" " Eelhan. Sinclair. Pollich. 



" " Weigel. Host. Leeks. 



" " Hudson. Huli. 



Tnticum pinnatum, Mcenoh. Paenell. Kunth. 



" " Macheight. 



The Heath False Brome-Grass. 



Bracliypodium — Short foot. Pinnatum — Feathered. 



A USELESS agricultural Grass, growing on commons and 

 in heathy situations, and preferring a chalk soil. 



Frequent in the counties of Devon, Oxford, Cambridge, 

 Nottingham, Bedford, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Gloucester, Worcester, Leicester, York, and Cum- 

 berland. 



Native of Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, 

 and Portugal. 



Very subject to variety. 



Stem delicate, upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four 

 or five lengthy linear rough leaves, with striated sheaths; 

 upper one shorter than its leaf. Ligules brief Joints hirsute. 

 Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets upright, long, and linear, 

 generally of ten awned florets and two glumes. Glumes 



