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lanceolate,roughish on the inner or upper surface. Panicle branched, 

 simple, sometimes bearing only a single stalked spikelet. Spikelets 

 ovate, lanceolate, bearing 5 or 6, or a greater number of fertile flowers, 

 lower palea 5-veined, the middle vein terminating below the apex 

 in a very short or obsolete awn. A smaller plant than the preceding. 

 (3 F. loliacea, (Huds.) Engl. Bot. t, 1821, Parn. Gr. t. 45, 113, and, 

 114, occurs in moist, rich pastures, but is more local than Y.pratensis, 

 and often intermixed with it. Spike 2-ranked, drooping. Spikelets 

 nearly sessile, linear, oblong. Florets cylindrical, awnless, pointed, 

 with 5 slight ribs at the top. It has the leaves also much more 

 numerous and usually larger. This grass is very liable to be over- 

 looked from its near resemblance in habit to the more frequent and 

 abundant Lolium perenne, It might also possibly be mistaken for 

 Glyceria fhdtans. Mr. H. C. Watson, by cultivating F. loliacea, has 

 found that it produces ordinary F. pratensis. 



Bromus, (Linn.) Brome-grass. 

 Linn. CI. iii., Ord. ii. 

 The name of this genus is derived from the Greek word bromos, 

 a kind of oat. 



1. B. erectus, (Huds.) upright Brome-grass. Engl. Bot. t. 471. 

 Parn. Gr. t. 51. 



Locality. On dry banks and pastures, and by road-sides, in 

 chalky and sandy soils. P. FL June, July. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 

 Not unfrequent in the Districts, but local. Stems 2 to 3 feet high, 

 round, striated, smooth leafy. Leaves numerous, radical ones very 

 narrow, linear, long, ciliated with long hairs, stem leaves broader 

 pubescent. Sheaths long, striated, hairy, close, slightly divided 

 near the summit only. Ligule short, mostly torn. Panicle erect, 

 more or less branched, branches angular and rough, with erect 

 bristles. Spikelets 5 to 7-flowered, compressed. Glumes very un- 

 equal. The flowers have frequently a tinge of purple. Var. /3 villosus 

 with the lower pale hairy, should be looked for in Wilts. 



2. B. asper (Linn.) hairy wood Brome-grass. Engl. Bot. t. 1172. 

 Parn. Gr. t. 51. 



Locality. In moist woods and thickets. A. or B. FL July. Area, 



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