608 GEAMiNEiE. [Bromus. 



lets."— ^r. Fl. p. 545. E. B. t. 1593. F. elatior, Host. Gram. 

 Aust. 57, t. 79 ? 



j3. loliacea. " Branches of the panicle solitary reduced to a single spitelet which 

 is sessile or shortly stalked below."— Br. Fl. F. loliacea, Sm., E. B. t. 1821. 



In meadows and pastures . Fl. June, July. 2|.. 



/3. In marshy meadows and pastures. Meadow by the stream-side a little be- 

 low Calbourne mill. Whitwell. Meadows at Easton, by Freshwater gate, plen- 

 tifully. In a marshy meadow called Pan moor, just out of Newport towards 

 Shide. By the side of the Medina between Newport and Shide, Mr. Snooke. In 

 Dark lane, Eyde, amongst vetches, 1843, Jlfr. Wm. Jolliffe .'.' 



XXVI. Bromus, Linn. Brome-grass. 



" Panicle lax or coarctate. Spikelets many-flowered, more or 

 less laterally compressed. Glumes 2, unequal, usually keeled, 

 equal to or shorter than the lowermost florets. Glumellas 2, her- 

 baceous ; outer one rounded on the back, two of the lateral nerves 

 usually uniting with the middle one and forming an awn below 

 the bifid extremity ; inner one conspicuously ciliated on the ribs. 

 Styles from below the summit of the caryopsis, which is villous at 

 the apex and ' adheres to the upper glumellas.' " — Br. Fl. 



1. B. giganteus, L. Tall Brome-grass. "Panicle branched 

 drooping towards one side, spikelets lanceolate 3 — 6 flowered 

 awned, outer glumella 5-nerved shorter than its awn, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate ribbed."— Br. Fl. p. 546. Festuca, Vill. E. B.t. 

 1820. Host. Gram. Aust. i. p. 6, t. 6. 



3. Spikelets fewer and more remote. B. triflorus, £.: JS. 5. xxvii. t. 1918. 

 Fl. Dan. iii. t. 440, 1630. 



In moist shady woods, copses and hedgerows; not uncommon. Fl. July, Au- 

 gust. 2;. 



E. Med. — In Quarr copse. Shore copse, and elsewhere about Ryde. White- 

 field wood, and near Yarbridge. Knighton East copse, by Newchurch. Sliauk- 

 lin chine. Copse near the Park farm, Appuldtircombe, 1844. 



W. Med.—[La.ne at Brighstone, A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] 



/3. Found occasionally in various places. 



Root perennial, a tuft of long, pale, nearly simple, downy fibres. Culms nu- 

 merous, from about 2 to 4 or 5 feet high, erect, stout, smooth, shining and gla- 

 brous, with tumid purplish joints, naked at the summit. Leaves bright green, 

 somewhat erect, those on the middle of the stem 12 or 15 inches long and 7 to 9 

 lines wide, those on the lower part narrower; flat, linear-lanceolate, finely striate, 

 taper-pointed and very acute, beneath shining, with a prominent sharply keeled 

 midrib and several less conspicuous lateral ones, finely serrulato-scabrous on the 

 margins, roughish chiefly towards the point on both sides, excepting at the lower 

 part of the leaf underneath, which is smooth and shining, a little obliquely clasp- 

 ing the slera by a pair of falcate purplish auricles, with acute mostly deflexed 

 points ; about the middle or rather nearer the point of each leaf there is a slight con- 

 traction like the impression a cord or other narrow ligature would make on a bundle 

 of them loosely tied together, an appearance I have not found noticed by any au- 

 thor.* Sheaths close, striated and glabrous, the uppermost longer, the rest shorter 

 than their leaves, a little open before at their tops. Ligule extremely short, broad 

 and truncate. Panicle large, a foot or more in length, subsecund, drooping or 



* This constriction is observable also in B. asper and in the common Reed 

 {Phragmites communis). 



