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98. GRAMINE^. 
St. 12 — 18 iu. high, usually bent at the lower knots. Whole 
plant rather dark green. — /3. aristatum ; lower pale with a long 
awn. — 7. L. teiiue (L.) ; spikelets few-flowered, 1. slender. — 
Sometimes the spikelets become converted into branches ; or 
the rachis is so much shortened as to produce a broad ovate 
close distichous spike. — Common. P. VI. Rye-grass. E. S. I. 
[Z. ital'icnm (A. Braun) ; with leafy barren shoots, edges of 
young I. involute, spikelets 9 — 14-flowered, lower pale with a 
long awn.— ^. vii. 77. F. 138 — 141. — St. many, straight, in 
dose tufts., 1^ — 3 ft. high. Whole plant, especially ;the spike- 
lets, paler than in the preceding. Ligule short, abrupt. — 
L. multiflorum (Lam.), perhaps confounded with this, has no 
barren shoots and is annual. — Cultivated fields. P. VI. 
Italian Rye-grass.^ E. 
[X. remotum (Schrank) ; no barren shoots, spikelets 7 — 11- 
flowered exceeding the gl., lower pale longer than its awn or 
awnless, fl. tumid with fruit. — L. linic'ola (Braun.), E. B. 
2955. — St. erect. Spike slender. Lower pale cartilaginous 
below, narrower than the upper, tumid in fruit. — Cultivated 
fields. A. VI. VII.] E. 
|2. L. temvlentum (L.) ; no barren shoots, spikelets about 6- 
flowered equalling or shoi'ter than the gl., lower pale awned, fl. 
tumid with fruit.— ^. B. 1124. P. 142.— St. erect. Ligule 
short. Upper gl. usually present, often bifid. — a ; awns as 
long as or longer than the pale. — /3. L. arvense (With.) ; fl. 
4 — 5 without or with short awns. E. B. 1125. — Cultivated 
fields. A. VI.-VIII. Darnel. E. S. L 
