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BROMUS ASPER. 



LiNNJEUS. Hooker and Abnott. Smith. Pabnell. Greville. Koch. 



Likdlet. Willdenow. Maettn. Knapp. Schbadeb. 



Host. Ehehart. Babington. Kunth. Macreight. Deakin. 



PLATE LIT. 



Bromus ramosus, 

 " nemoralis, 

 " nemorosus, 

 " liirsutus, 

 " monfanus, 



Linn^us. 



Hudson. 



Villars. 



Curtis. 



pollich. eetzius. 



The Hairy Wood Bromus. 



Bromus — Food. 



Asper — Rough. 



A common, tall-growing, coarse Grass, found in damp shady 

 woods, and of scarcely any agricultural merits. 



Native of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. 



Stem upright, circular, and somewhat rough, carrying four or 

 five hroad, flat, sharp-pointed, rough leaves, with striated hairy 

 sheaths. Joints five. Inflorescence simple-panicled. Panicle 

 weeping in habit. Spikelets one inch long, linear -lanceolate, of 

 about eight awned glossy brownish purple florets. Calyx of 

 two unequal acute glumes, the upper one longest and three- 

 ribbed. Florets of two palea?, exterior one of basal floret longer 

 than the calyx, summit bifid, five-ribbed, the dorsal rib dentate, 

 and ending in a long rough awn. Inner palea having two 



