GRAMINE^:. 



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slightly creeping rootstock. Leaves flat, 

 and rather long. Spikelets usually 6 or 

 7, in a loose spike, more or less drooping, 

 or rarely erect, each one attaining an 

 inch or even more in length, nearly cy- 

 lindrical when young, but flattened when 

 in fruit, containing from 8 to twice that 

 number of flowers. Glumes glabrous or 

 pubescent, the outer ones pointed, the 

 flowering ones ending in an awn, usually 

 as long as or longer than the glume it- 

 self. Palea fringed with a few hairs on 

 the edges. 



In woods, hedges, and thickets, through- 

 out Europe, and central and Russian 

 Asia, except the extreme north. Com- 

 mon in England and Ireland, more scarce 

 in the Scotch Highlands. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1198. 



2. Heath False-Brome. 



Brachypodium pinnatum, Beauv. 

 (Fig. 1199.) 



(Bromus, Eng. Eot. t. 730.) 



Perhaps a mere variety of the slender 

 F., growing in more open situations. 

 The rootstock is more creeping, the 

 spikelets more erect, the flowering glumes 

 rather smaller, and more open, and the 

 awn is very much shorter. 



In pastures and stony wastes, with 

 nearly the same geographical range as 

 the slender F., but not extending so far 

 north, and more common in southern 

 and eastern Europe. In Britain, scat- 

 tered over the eastern and central 

 counties of England, but unknown in 

 Scotland or Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1109. 



