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THE GRASS FAMILY. 



Bcehmer's Phleum. Phleum Bcehmeri, Schrad. 

 (Fig. 1154.) 

 (Phalaris pkleoides, Eng. Bot. t. 459.) 



An erect perennial, like the Timothy 

 P. but usually smaller, with shorter 

 leaves, the sheaths not enlarged. Spike 

 cylindrical, 1 to 3 inches long, not quite 

 so dense as in the Timothy P. Outer 

 glumes narrow-lanceolate, tapering into 

 a minute point, without hairs on the 

 keel, and with a narrow, scarious edge. 

 Flowering glume much smaller. Pa- 

 lea with a minute bristle at its base out- 

 side. 



In dry fields, and waste places, gene- 

 rally dispersed over Europe and Hussian 

 Asia, except the extreme north. Rare 

 in Britain, and chiefly found in some of 

 the eastern counties of England. Fl. 

 summer, rather early, 



Fig. 1154. 



4. Rough Phleum. Phleum asperum, Jacq. (Fig. 1155.) 



(P. panic ulatum, Eng. Bot. t. 1077.) 



An annual, 6 inches to a foot high, 

 with a cylindrical spike like that of the 

 Bcehmer's P., but the spikelets are 

 smaller and more numerous. Outer 

 glumes less than a line long, of a firm tex- 

 ture, smooth or scarcely rough, narrow 

 at the base, enlarged upwards, and con- 

 tracted rather suddenly into a very short 

 point, the lateral nerves scarely promi- 

 nent. Flowering glume very small. 



In dry fields, and waste places, in 

 central and southern Europe, extending 

 eastward to the Caucasus, and north- 

 ward into eastern France and central 

 Germany. Eare in Britain, if indeed it 

 really exists in Cambridgeshire and the 

 few other English counties where it has 

 Fig. 1155. been indicated. Fl. summer. 



