302 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



1 ,2,3,4,5. Rather common and generally distributed throughout the Dis- 

 tricts. Stems 3 to 5 or even 6 feet high. Leaves long and flat, with 

 long* spreading or reflexed hairs on their sheaths. Panicle loose, with 

 long* drooping branches, bearing a few loose spikelets each above 



1 inch long, containing 6 or 10 flowers. Flowering glumes nearly 

 cylindrical, slightly hairy, with a straight fine awn shorter than the 

 glume itself. This grass is sometimes confused by young botanists 

 with B. giganteus. 



3. B. sterilis (Linn.) barren Brome-grass. Engl. Bot. t. 1030. 

 Tarn. Gr. t. 50. 



Locality. Waste ground, fields, and hedges. A. Fl. June. Area, 

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Distributed throughout all the Districts . Stems 1 to 



2 feet high, or in woods and shady places sometimes more, they are 

 roughish and striated. Leaves broad and flat, usually of a dark 

 green colour. Panicle distantly branched, drooping and spreading, 

 with long, slender, rough, and mostly simple branches. SpiJcelets long, 

 lanceolate, including the awns frequently more than 2 inches in length, 

 about 8-flowered. 6r^77Z£<? very unequal, the upper one 3- veined. Awn 

 more than twice the length of the palea. An elegant grass, re- 

 markable for its long, narrow, much awned, and drooping spikelets. 



4. B. secalinus, (Linn.) smooth Bye Brome-grass. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1171. Parn. Gr. tt. 49, 121, and 122. Serrafalcus, Bab. 



Locality. In corn-fields, but scarcely indigenous. A. Fl. July, 

 September. Area, * * *" 4. 5. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Corn-fields near South Stoke, and Middle 

 Hill, Box [China Court). 



5. North-east District. " A downy form of this was plentiful in 

 a field beyond the Brick-pits, at the top of Forest Hill, in 1862," 

 Flor. Mar lb. Stem 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves flat, rather broad, 

 roughish at the edges and underneath. Inflorescence at first erect, 

 but more or less drooping after flowering. Panicle often simple, 

 sometimes branched. Spikelets ovate, glossy, 8 to 10-flowered. 

 Glumes broad, nearly equal. Flowers spreading and separating as 

 the fruit begins to enlarge. Known in fruit by its hairy panicle, 

 and separately rolled-up flowers. 



