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98. GEAMINE^. 
base : upper pale glabrous, lower pilose on the veins below, 
anth. violet. — ^. Benehenii (Syme) : pan. slightly drooping with 
rather short suberect branches 3 — 6 together with a semilunar 
very blunt not ciliate subdeeurrent scale at their base, upper 
gl. ciliate to the top, lower pale pilose throughout : 1. flat, upper 
sheaths subglabrous, lower hispid, anth. golden. — Damp woods 
and thickets. P. ? VII. E. S. I. 
** Spikelets ahvays broader npicards. Ribs of upper pale 
strongly fnnged. Awn long. f 
- Z. £. ster'ilis (L.)j pan. drooping, branches long slightly 
divided, spikelets Imear-lanceolate, fl. remote, loiver pale 
glabrous shorter than its a^\'n with 7 distinct equidistant ribs, 
1. pubescent.— ^. ^. 1030. P. 50.— Height 1—2 feet. L. broad, 
flat. — Waste places. A. VI. E. S. I. 
4. B. iiiadriten sis (L. em.) ; panicle erect, branches short 
scarcely divided, spikelets lanceolate, fi. linear remote sub- 
cylindrical, lower j>ale aboait as long as its awn ~ -ribbed, 2 lateral 
ribs close together, interm. rib faint. — E. B. 1006. P. 50. — 
a. B. madritensis (L.) ; B. diandrus (Curt.) ; st. glabrous, 
rachis and pedicels rough. St. 6 — 12 in. high. Remarkable 
for its erect panicle. Upper pale but little shorter than the 
lower. — [(3. B. rigidus (Roth) ; pan. compact, pedicels very 
short, upper part of St., pedicels, rachis and gl. pubescent.] — 
Drv sandy places, rare. Channel Islands.] A. VI. VII. 
E. S. I. 
[B. tectorum (L.) : like B. madritensis, pan. secund drooping, 
upper pale much the shorter. — Introduced.] 
[^B. max imus (Desf.) ; pan. erect lax at length nodding, 
branches slightly divided lengthened after flowering, spikelets 
downy, lower pale l-ribbed abo^tt half as long as its aim. — 
£. B. S. 2820.— Height 1—2 feet. A most beautiful grass.— 
Sandy places. Channel Islands. A. VIII.] 
44. Seeeafal'cus Parlatm e.^ 
* Fl. at first loosely imbricate, aftenvards distinct and 
cylindrical. 
*l. S. secalinus (Bab.) ; pan. loose drooping in fr. slightly 
compound, simple peduncles about as long as the oblong 
glabrous spikelets, fl. about as long as the straight awn, lower 
1 Corresponds to the genus liromus of Fries ; to part of Itrrmvts of 8m., Hook, 
