SEEEAFALCUS. 
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jjale not overlapping the next 11. uniformly rounded at the sides, 
1. hairy.— B. 1171. P. 49, 121 & 122.— With seed the &. 
spread and the spikelets droop. Top of upper gl. h- waij between 
its base and the top of fourth fi. (second on the same side). Lower 
pale not twice as long as broad, longer than the upper, 7-ribbed. 
—i. velutinm CKoch) ; pan. nearly simple, M. larger downy. 
123.- Corn-fields. A. VI. VII. E.S.I. 
** Fl. closeli) imbricate even with fruit. 
■2. S. racemosKS (Pari.); pan. long erect usually simple, spike- 
lets ovate rather compressed glossy, fl. imbricate about as long 
as the straight awn, sides of lower pale uniformly rounded, 
\. and sheaths slightly hairy. — E. B. 1079. — Top of the upper 
;// ume \-wat/ to the top of the fourth flower. Lower pale longer 
than the upper. Anth. 4 times as long as broad. Pan. close 
with fruit. — Common. B. VI. E. I. 
3. S. prate n sis {ViWvaolX,) ; pan. loose slightly drooping com- 
Dound, simple peduncles as long as or longer than the oblong- 
lanceolate spikelets, 11. loose imbricate about as long as the 
straight awn, lower p>ale bluntly angular above the middle, 
1. and sheaths hairy. B. pratensis (Ehrh. ex Hoffm.), >S'. 
I ' ■inmutdtus (Bab.). — P. 124. E. B. 920. — Lower pale only 
slightly overlapping the next fl. at the base when in fruit. To}} 
• f \ipper gl. \-way to top of fourth fl. Lower pale twice as long 
as broad, longer than the upper, glabrous or downy, 7-ribbed. 
Anth. 6 times as long as broad. — /3. multiflorus (Parn.) ; more 
numerous fl., top of upper gl. rather higher. P. 125. — Common. 
B. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
4. aS'. mollis (Pari.) ; pan. close erect compound or rarely 
simple, spikelets ovate rather compressed pubescent, H. 
rlosely imbricate about as long as the straight awn, sides 
of loicer pale bluntly angidar about the middle, 1. and 
sheaths hairy or downy.— jE". B. 1078. P. HQ.— Top of 
the upper gl. h-way to the top of the sixth flower; or a 
little higher (o!;a/is Parn. 117, with short oval spikelets); or 
about i-way to the top of the eighth {pratensis Parn. 118, 
with longer spikelets). Lower pale longer than the upper. 
Simple ped. not longer than the spikelets. Anth. about thrice 
as long as broad. Barely the spicules are glabrous, when it is 
B. racemOSUS Parn. 119 [ = S. moIUs var. glnbre.icens Greii.]. — A 
maritime plant with nearly or quite prostrate . St., nearly 
simple pan., and nearly glabrous pales, seems to be the 
B. hordeaceus (L. sec. Fries). Another with very short psd. 
and densely downy spikelets [and divaricate awns (.S. Lloydianns, 
