Bromui.] gramine*. 611 



Lond. Journ. of Bot. i. p. 84."— Br. Fl. p. 549. E. B. t. 1078. 



Host. Oram. Aust. i. 16, t. 19. Serrafalcus, Pari. 



An abundant species in meadows, pastures, by roadsides, in cornfields aud 

 waste places. Fl. June. O or ^ . 



6. B. racemosus, L, Smooth Brome-grass. " ' Panicle elon- 

 gated erect in fruit, peduncles nearly simple about equal to the 

 ovate subcompressed glabrous spikelets, florets imbricated com- 

 pressed, awn straight about as long as the glume, sheaths of the 

 leaves slightly hairy.' H. Watson in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 

 i. p. 84."— J5r. Fl. p. 549. E. B. t. 1079. 



;8. intermedia. Culms pubescent. 



In similar places with B. mollis, but of less frequent occurrence. Fl. June. 

 or ^. 



E. Med. — Not rare about Eyde, as in fields between it and Binstead. Abun- 

 dant in meadows on Sandown level. Fields near Ashey. 



W. Jl/e(i.— Freshwater, D. Turner, Esq., B. T. W. 



;8. Meadow in Sandown level, 1839. 



I can hardly believe this to be more than a glabrous state of i?. mollis. 



7. B. commutatus, Schrad. Tumid Field Brome-grass. '"Pa- 

 nicle loose slightly drooping in fruit, lower peduncles often elon- 

 gated and branched, simple peduncles equalling or exceeding in 

 length the oblong-lanceolate glabrous spikelets, florets loosely im- 

 bricated, when in fruit the glumellas only slightly overlapping at 

 their edges near the base, awn straight about as long as the floret, 

 leaves and their sheaths hairy.' H. Watson in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 i. p. 84,."— Br. Fl. p. 649. Vide Dietrich. Berlin. Fl. i. B. 

 arvensis, Parnell, Scot. Gr. p. 114, t. 49. B. multiflorus. Host. 

 Gram. Aust. i. 10, t. 11 ? (B. patulus, M. et K. ex iisdem aucto- 

 ribus in Rohl. Deutschl. Fl. i. p. 685). Serrafalcus, Bab. B. pra- 

 tensis, E. B. t. 920 (small specimen). 



Cornfields and by waysides, in pastures, &c. Fl. Suxie — October. ©. 



E. Med.— By the roadside between Byde and Brading, before coming to the 

 turning to St. Helens, frequent, 1839. By the pathside between Sandown and 

 Shanklin. In a cornfield near Shanklin towards Luccombe. Field near Coppid 

 hall. Cornfield near St. Catherine's point, sparingly. 



Root of several slender fibres. Culms 2—3 feet high, round, striated, quite 

 smooth, or with a slight roughness visible only under a lens. Leaves linear, flat 

 and tapering, very downy on their upper surface with long, white, nearly erect 

 hairs, shorter and less copious on the under side: those leaves that are nearest 

 the root, and which soon wither and dry up, are narrower than such as are 

 higher on the stem. Sheaths long, close, ribbed, the uppermost one nearly gla- 

 brous, though its leaf be downy, the rest clothed with deflexed pubescence. Ligule 

 very short, truncate and jagged. Panicle from 4 to 6 or 8 inches in length, of 

 many long, slender, half-whoiled, simple or compound branches, rough and an- 

 gular for some distance beneath the spikelets, smooth towards their insertion on 

 the main stem, at first slightly secund and erecto-patent, afterwards drooping and 

 quite unilateral, one or two of the lower branches excepted, which depend occa- 

 sionally in opposite directions. Spikelets lanceolate, compressed, very acute, and 

 finely tapering at first, but as the flowers advance the tips of the extreme florets 

 expand a little by the swelling of the ripening seeds, destroying the distinctness 

 of this character : the spikelets are usually greenish, variously shaded with purple 

 and russet tints, with strongly marked dark green or purplish ribs ; not unfre- 

 quently they are altogether bright green, or coloured on one side only. Calyx 



