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HORDE DM PRATENSE. 



Hudson. Hooker and Arnott. Smith. Kt/nth. 



Deakin. Parnell. Lindley. Eelhan. Martyn. KuAPr. Sinclair. 



Macreight. Schradee. Ehrhart. 'Withering. Sibthorp. 



Babington. Beichenbach. 



PLATE LX1II. A. 



Hordeum nodosum; Koch. Linnaeus. 



" secalinum, Willdenow. Host. 



" marilimum, Oeder. 



Gramen secalinum, Gerarde. Eat. 



The Meadow Barley. 



Hordeum — ? Pratense — A field. 



Found in moist meadows and pastures in the counties of 

 Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, 

 Bedford, Oxford, Leicester, Worcester, Warwick, Nottingham- 

 shire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Flint, 

 and Denbigh. In Scotland rare — near Edinburgh; occasionally 

 in Ireland. Extending into Central Europe. 



An early species, and although common in Norfolk pastures 

 is not considered a profitable agricultural Grass. 



Stem circular, smooth, upright, and polished, carrying four 

 or five linear, flat, somewhat hirsute leaves, with smooth stri- 

 ated sheaths; the upper one being longer in its leaf, and 

 having a very brief ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. Inflor- 

 escence spiked. Spikes dense, and an inch and a half long. 

 Rachis dentate. Spikelets in threes on each tooth of the 

 rachis. Calyx of central spikelet consisting of two equal- 



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