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and terminal styles do not accord with the characters of Bromus. 
Perennial, flowering latter part of July, August. 
Bromus asper, the Hairy Wood Brome, is almost as frequent 
as the preceding species. Rootstock tufted. Leaves large, flat, 
broadly linear-lanceolate, hairy above, bright green ; lower sheaths 
thickly clothed with spreading deflexed hairs. Culms 3-6 ft, 
often overtopping the shrubs.‘ Panicle with long arching branches, 
3-5 at the lower insertions. Spikelets about an inch long, droop- 
ing, cylindric at first, then much compressed, about 8-flowered ; 
flowering glumes rounded on the back, notched at tip, and with a 
subterminal awn half their length; apex of ovary hairy, styles 
lateral. Perennial, flowering close 
of July, August. 
Brachypodium sylvaticum, the 
Slender False-brome (fig. 25), will 
usually be seen on the dry slopes 
of woods, and on shady hedge- 
banks; it is rather common and 
generally distributed. Rootstock 
tufted, not creeping. Leaves 
broadly linear-lanceolate, soft and 
very hairy on both sides, with 
ciliate margins, light yellowish- 
green; sheaths clothed with 
spreading-deflexed hairs. Culms 
1-2 ft., slender. Spike drooping ; 
spikelets 3-1 inch long, subcylin- 
dric, on pedicels so short that 
they appear sessile on the rachis, 
8- to 10-flowered ; flowering glumes 
entire, ze. not notched at the tip, 
and with a terminal awn their own 
length ; upper part of ovary hairy. 
Perennial, flowering latter part of 
July, August. Fic. 26.—Melica uniflora: upper 
Milium efusum, the Spreading eve an, enlarged, speek loves 
Millet, is fairly common in moist _ show the clavate (club-shaped) body 
woods throughout England, rather on left. 
scarce in Scotland and Ireland. 
Rootstock shortly stoloniferous. Leaves broadly linear-lanceolate, 
with faint smooth ribs but very scabrid margins, flaccid, pale 
bright green; ligule long. Culms 3-4 ft. Panicle with remote 
half-whorls of long slender widely-spreading branches, several 
at each insertion. Spikelets disposed mostly at the distal por- 
tions of the branches, $ inch long, egg-shaped, not compressed, 
pale green, 1-flowered ; glumes all equal, rounded on the back and 
awnless, the flowering one smooth, becoming hard and polished in 
fruit. Perennial, flowering early June. 
Melica uniflora, the Wood Melic (fig. 26), is found on dry slopes 
and rocky places in woods ; rather frequent and generally distri- 
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