GRAMINE^. 



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1. Wood Barley. Hordeum sylvaticum, Huds. 

 (Fig. 1190.) 



{Elymus eurojpceus, Eng. Bot. t. 131.7.) 



An erect perennial, about 2 feet high, 

 with flat leaves, usually hairy on the 

 sheaths. Spike cylindrical, not very 

 dense, about 3 inches long. The cen- 

 tral spikelet of each notch is reduced to 

 2 narrow-linear glumes, either quite 

 empty or rarely containing a rudimen- 

 tary or male flower ; the 2 lateral spike - 

 lets have each 1 perfect flower, and 

 sometimes a second, either rudimentary 

 or male ; the outer glumes like those of 

 the central spikelet, but rather broader 

 and longer, and placed side by side ; the 

 flowering glume shorter, but terminating 

 in a long awn. 



In woods and thickets, in central and 

 southern Europe, extending eastward 

 to the Caucasus and northward to south- 

 ern Scandinavia. In Britain, not rare in 

 some of the midland and northern coun- 

 ties of England, but not found in Ire- 

 land or Scotland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1190. 



2. Meadow Barley. Hordsum pratense, Huds. 

 (Fig. 1191.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 409.) 



An erect or decumbent annual or perennial, often 2 feet high, and 

 tufted or bulbous at the base. Leaves glabrous and rather narrow. 

 Spike \\ to 2 inches long, close and cylindrical. To each notch are 

 3 pairs of awn-like, rough glumes ; within the central pair is a flower- 

 ing glume, lanceolate, but completely rolled round the flower, and 

 tapering into an awn as long as itself; within each of the 2 lateral 



