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BRACITYPODIUM SYLVATICUM. 



Beauvais. Hooker and Abnott. Lindley. Deakin. 

 Koch. Babington. 



plate lxvi. a. 



Festuca sylvatica, 

 tt a 



tt tt 



" gracilis, 



Bromus sylvalicus, 

 K it 



" gracilis, 

 n tt 



Triticum sylvaticum, 



Smith. Sinclair. Hudson. Marty.n. 

 Knapp. Dickson. Lightfoot. 

 Withering. Kelhan. Sibthorp. 



MrENCH. SciIRADER. 



Pollich. Smith. Hull. Hooker. 

 Sinclair. Pourret. Host. 

 Weigel. Both. \Villdenow. 

 Ehbhaet. 



M(ENCH. PaBNELL. Kl'NTH. 



Macbeight. 



The Slender False JJronie- Grass. 



Brachypodium — Short foot. 



Sylvaticum — A wood. 



Brachypodium. Beauvais. — The False Brome-Grass is named from the 

 Greek, and signifies short-footed. This genus is intermediate between 

 Bromus and Triticum. There arc two British examples. 



Of no agricultural use, growing in damp shady situations; 

 common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia. 



Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or five 

 broad sharp-pointed polished leaves, with hirsute striated 

 sheaths, upper leaf extending beyond its sheath, and having 

 a blunt hirsute ligule at its apex. Joints hairy, and four in 

 number. Inflorescence racemed. Spikelets lengthy and cylin- 



