lOLIITM. , 447 



straight or slightly curved. [X. incurvatua (Trin.) is apparently 

 only found as a ballast plant.]— Gravelly and waste places near 

 the sea. A. VII, E. S. I. 



50. Lo'littm Linn. Eye-grass. 



1. X. peren'ne (L.) ; with leafy barren shoots, edges of young 

 I. simply folded, spikelets 3— 11-flowered, gl. equaling the 

 lowest ti., lower pale usually awnless. — E. B. 316. P. 65.— 

 St. 12 — 18 in. high, usually bent at the lower knots. Whole 

 plant rather dark green. — ;8. aristatum ; lower psde with a long 

 awn.— 7. X. temie (L.); spikelets few-flowered, 1. slender. — 

 Sometimes the spikelets become converted into branches; or 

 the rachis is so much shortened as to produce a broad ovate 

 close distichous spike. — Common. P. VI. Rye-grass. E. S. I. 



[X. ital'imm (A. Braun) ; with leafy barren shoots, edges of 

 young I. involute, spikelets 9 — 14-flowered, lower pale with a 

 long awn. — jR. vii. 77. P. 138— 141.— iSi. many, straight, in 

 close tnfts, IJ — 3 ft. high. Whole plant, especially the spike- 

 lets, paler than in the preceding. Ligule short, abrupt. — 

 X. nmltijlorum (Lam.), perhaps confounded with this, has no 

 barren shoots and is annual. — Cultivated fields. ■ P. VI. Italian 

 £.ye-grass.~\ E. 



[X. linic'ola (Send.) ; no barren shoots, spikelets 7 — II -flow- 

 ered exceeding the gl, lower pale longer than its awn or awn- 

 less, fl. tumid with fi-uit. — E. B. 2955. — St. erect. Spike slender. 

 Lower pale cartilaginous below, narrower than the upper, tumid 

 in fruit.— Cultivated fields. A. VI. VU.] E. 



J2. X. temulen'tum. (L.) ; no barren shoots, spiklets about 6- 

 flowered equalling or shorter than the gl., lower pale awned, fl. 

 tumidwithfruit.— X'.P. 1124. P. 142.— St. erect. Ligule short. 

 Upper gl. usually present, often bifid. — a ; awns as long as or 

 longer than the pale. — ;8. X. arvense (With.) ; fl. 4 — 5 without 

 or with short awns. E. B. 1125. — Cultivated fields. A. VI. — '■ 

 VIU. Bamel. E. S. L 



