6S2 GEAMiNE*. [Lepturun. 



p. In the Spencer road, Ryde, Dr. Betl-Salter !! who also finds this form ex- 

 tremely common about Ryde, as on the Dover, between Ryde and Ashey, and in 

 other places. 



2. L. temulentum, L. Bearded Darnel. Vect. Cheat. Spike- 

 lets about 6-flowered equal to or shorter than the glume, florets 

 awned or awnless elliptical in fruit tumid, root annual without bar- 

 ren shoots. — a. Florets with rigid awns about as long as or longer 

 than the glumella." — Br. Fl. p. 559. E. B. t. 1124. Host. 

 Gram. Aust. i. 20, t. 26. 



j8. Florets imperfeelly awned. L. arvense, L. .- E. B. t. 1125. Host. Gram. 

 Aust. iii. 17, t. 26. 



Amongst corn and about the borders of cornfields: most frequently in bavlev. 

 Fl.3n\y 0. ' 4 j y 



E. Med — Between Lalie and Sandown, Dr. Bell-Salter, who kindly presented 

 me with the only two specimens he found, 1838. Amongst barley at Whitcotnb, 

 Mr. Wm. Hughes!! 



W. Med. — Cornfields about Yarmouth, Mr. Squire. 



This species is called Cheat in the Isle of Wight, from its resemblance to the 

 grain amongst which it grows, — a name applied, for the same reason, in some 

 places to Bromus secalinus. 



1 3. L. multiflorum, Lam. Annual Many-flowered Darnel or 

 Bay-grass. " Spikelets 6 — 14 flowered, glume solitary scarcely 

 as long as the lowest floret, florets lanceolate awned, roots pro- 

 ducing leafy barren shoots." — Br. Fl. p. 559. L. mult. 0. arista- 

 turn, Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. p. 354. L. italicum, A. Braun : Parnell, 

 Scot. Gr. p. 142, t. 65. L. perenne var., Parn. Gr. tt. 138, 139, 

 140, 141. 



In a clover-tield near Fernhill, 1841. Plentiful and with very long awns along 

 a private path to Brooklands (the Rev. Augustus Hewitt's) from Binstead, Dr. 

 Bell-Salter!!! 



This is beautifully distinguished from L. perenne, according to Mr. Woods, by 

 the aestivation of the leaves in the ban'en shoots, which in the latter are simply 

 folded, but rolled in the former. (See ' Phytologist ' for Feb. 1845). 



I learn from my kind correspondent. Dr. Wood, of Broughton, by Manchester, 

 that L. multiflorum is common in that vicinity, and that specimens sent by him 

 to Sir W. Hooker exactly agreed with continental specimens of the species in 

 that gentleman's herbarium. Dr. W., who has kindly furnished me with Lanca- 

 shire specimens, exactly similar to my own from this island, says it is annual.* 



XXXIII. Lepturus, Brown. Hard-grass. 



" Spike terete, sohtary, separating at the joints. Spikelets soli- 

 tary in each joint, imbedded in cavities alternately on opposite 

 sides of the rachis and placed edgewise to it, with 1 (or 2) fertile 

 florets and a superior minute rudimentary (sometimes obsolete) 

 neuter one. Glumes 1 (or) 2, collateral, on the opposite side from 



* [It is evident, however, that our author was not fully convinced of the dis- 

 tinctness of this plant as a species, by the following remarks, penned immediately 

 before his leaving England. He observes, it is "probably either naturalized by 

 direct importation with foreign grass-seed, or an annual or biennial state of L. 

 perenne, produced by culture, as suggested by the authors of the sixth edition of 

 the ' British Flora.'" (Phytol. iii. p. U19).—Edrs.'] 



