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43. Bkxchvpodium (False Brome). — Pferennial grasses with 

 long, many-iiowered spikdels in a spike or raceme, witli an un- 

 indented racliu ; glumes unequal ; flowering glume with a terminal 

 awn ; ovary hairy at the top. (Name from the Greek hraclius, 

 short, podion, a foot-stalk, in allusion to the short stalks of the 

 spikclets.) 



I. B. sylvdtlciiiii (Slender False Brome). -Root fibrous; stem 

 usually solitary, erect, i — 3 feet high ; 

 leaves broad, flat, rather long, flaccid, hairy ; 

 s pikelets 6 — 18, usually only 6 or 7, dis- 

 tichous, sub-sessile, adpressed, 1—2 in. 

 long, nearly cylindrid when voung, flattened 

 when in fruit, 8 — lo-flowerid, in a loose 

 spike, more or less drooping ; glumes 

 pointed ; flowering glume ending in an awn 

 as long as, or longer than, itself — Woods 

 and hedges ; common, — Fl. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



2, B. pinudtum (Heath False Brome). — 

 Root-stock creeping.; stems several, erect, 

 1 — J feet high, sm'ooth, glaucous ; leaves 

 narrow, involute, rigid, almost glabrous ; 

 spike erect, with smaller, green or purplish 

 .9 />z7;f/f/i- curving away' from the rachis ; auur 

 shorter than the '•flowering glume. — Dry 

 places on limestone.*; not commom, absent 

 from Scotland and Ireland. — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



44. Lf'iLiu.M (Rye-grass). — Perennial 

 grasses with their spikelets solitary, sessile 

 in the notches of a simple rachis. forming 

 a spike, conip)ressed, with their edgc^ 

 towards the rachis, 3- or more-tlowered. 

 (Name, a Classical Latin name.) 



T. L. perenne (Rve-grass, Way Bent). — 

 Stem a.scen(ling, 1 — 2 feet high, with leafy runners: spike 6 — 12 

 in. long; spikelets not close together, S- of more flowered ; outer 

 glume strongly ribbed, not as long as the whole spikelet, varying 

 in shape ; floioering glume obtuse, pointed or awned. — \\'aste 

 places ; common. — Fl. May — July. Perennial. 



*/,. iidlicum (Italian Rye-grass) is an annual or biennial variety, 

 with much longer spikelets and more flowers, known only in a 

 cultivated state. It is one of the most valuable of fodder L/rasses. 



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