420 97. GKAMINE^S. 



tending- to .tke tip but endinq in a rough aton twice as Imff'^s the 



jsafe, 1. /linear-lanceolate k B. 1820;. P.. 47.— St. 3—4 feet 



higi. ' L. very long,, brbad, rougliigLi' on both sideay exeept near 

 the base onfthe underside. Ligule unequal, auricled. Lower 

 pale roughish, meml)ranous, often bifid at the. tip.. ,Top of the 

 ovary glabrous. — /Sl !F. triflora (Sm.);pan. smallei? and more 

 erect, spikelets scattered of about 8 flowers. E. B. 1918. — Moist 

 ■woods and thickets. P. VII. E, S. 1. 



9. F. arwiidindcea (Sohreb.) ; panicle diffuse patent, branehis 

 mostly in pairs each hearing 2 or wore ovate-oblong spikelets 

 divaricate with fl. or afterwards, spikelets very many of 5-^6 

 closely placed fl., dorsal rib of lower pale ending at or just below 

 tlie tip or forming a shorf awn, 1. Hnear-lanceolate. — F. elatior 

 Sm., F. B. 1593. P. 46, 47.— St. 2^6 ft. high, forming large 

 tufts,. , L. broad.— There seem \<) be two forms of this plant, or 

 perhaps two species. — a. J^an<»rfmaem(Schreb.); pan.-branohes 

 divaricate after flowering. A very large plant, 3 — 6 fl. high. — 

 /3. F. elatior (L.) ; pan. -branches shorter "divaricate with fl, 

 afterwards ascending." — a. Banks near the sea. $. Damp pas- 

 tures. P. VI. VII. E.g. I. 



10. F. praten'sis (Huds.) ; pan. clo§e subsecund, branches/ in 

 pairs -one bearing a single spiheletthe other several nevei- divaricate, 

 spikelets linear-oblong of 5 — 10 rather distant fl,, dorsal rib of 

 lower pale ending at or just below the tip or forming a very 

 short awn, 1. linear-lanceolate. — F. 5. 1692. P. 46. J^. elatior 

 Koch. — A smaller plant than the preceding. Rachis triangular, 

 Pan.-branehes ascending; one of each pair nearly alw&ys reduced 

 to a single spikelet. In this and the preceding the pale is blunt 

 or acute according as the midrib is or is not attached up to the 

 tip. — /3. J^. loliacea (Huds.) ; spikes solitary alternate long slen- 

 der truly distichous, lower ones stalked, rarely in pairs, upper 

 nearly sessile, fl. distant, lower gl. 5 — 8-ribbed, vems of lower 

 pale parallel, no awn, rachis flattish. — F. B. 1821. P. 46, 113 

 & 114. — Mr. Borrer considered these plants to be distinct. They 

 deserve careful study. — Wet meadows. P. VI. VII. E. S, 1. 



43. Bbo'mus lAwn,} 



*, Spilidets broader upiuar<h when in Jlower. Bibs of upper pale 

 jfimely fringed. 



1. B. erec'tus (Huds.) ; pan. erect nearly simple, spikelets 

 Imear-lanceolate, fl. remote subeylindrical, lozver pale indistinctly 

 1 -veined, lowest JI-. \ exceeding the upper gl. and longer than its 

 awn, root-1. very narrow ciliate. — K B. 471. P. 51. — St. 2 — 3 



, ' Synonymous with the genus Schedonortts of Fries, not of Beauv; 



