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about 5 aicned fi., dorsal rib of lower pale nearly smooth not 
extending to the tip but ending in a rough axvn ttoice as long 
as the pale, 1. linear-lanceolate.— B. 18*20. P. 47. — St. 3—4 
feet high. L. vei-y long, broad, rougliish on both sides, except 
near the base on the under side. Ligule unequal, auricled. Lower 
pale roughish, membranous, often bifid at the tip. Top of the 
ovary glabrous. — /3. F. triflora (Sm.); pan. smaller and more 
erect, spikelets scattered of about 3 flowers. E. B. 1918. — 
Moist woods and thickets. P. VII. E. S. I. ' ' 
9. F. arundindcea (Schreb.) ; panicle diffuse patent, branches 
mostly in pairs each bearing 2 or more ovate-oblong spikelets 
divaricate with fl. or afterwards, spikelets very many of 5 — 6 
closely placed fl., dorsal rib of loivcr pale ending at or pist below 
the tip or forminq a shoH axon, 1. linear-lanceolate. — F. elatior 
Sm., F. B'. 1593." P. 46, 47.— St. 2—6 ft. high, forming large 
tufts. L. broad. — There seem to be two foi-ms of this plant, or 
perhaps two species. — a. F. anmdinacea (Schreb.) ; pan.- j 
branches divaricate after flowering. A very large plant, 3 — 6 ft. ^' 
high. — /3. F. elatior (L.); pan.-branches shorter "divaricate 
with fl. afterwards ascending. — a. Banks near the sea. /3. Damp 
pastm-es. P. M. VII. E. S. I. 
10. F. praten'sis (Iluds.) ; pan. close subsecund, branches in 
pairs one bearing a single spikelet the other several never diva- 
ricate, spikelets linear-oblong of 5 — 10 rather distant fl., dorsal \ 
rib of lower pale ending at or just below the tip or forming a | (, 
very short awn, 1. linear-lanceolate. — E. B. 1592. P. 46. F. ela- „ 
tior Koch. — A smaller plant than the preceding. Rachis trian- [, 
gular. Pan.-branches ascending; one of each pair nearly always ' 
reduced to a single spikelet. In this and the preceding the pale 
is blunt or acute according as the midrib is or is not attached up , "1 
to the tip. — ^. F. loliacea (Huds.) ; spikelets solitary alternate 
long slender truly distichous, lower ones stalked, rarely in pairs, ), 
upper nearly sessile, fl. distant, lower gl. 5 — 8-ribbed, veins of 
lower pale parallel, no awn, rachis flattish. — E. B. 1821. P. 45, i 
113 & 114. — Mr. Bon-er considered these plants to be distinct. ^ 
They deserve careful study. — Wet meadows. P. VI. \Tl. E. S. I. 
43. Bro'mtts Linn.' 
* Spikelets broader upwards ichen in flower. Ribs of upper pale 
jUiely fringed. 
1. B. erec'tus (Huds.); pan. erect nearly simple, spikelets ' 
linear-lanceolate, fl. remote subcylindrical, louver pale indistinctly ^ 
7-veined, lowest jfl. ^ exceeding the upper gl. and longer than its 
awn, root-1. very nari'ow ciliate. — E. B. 471. P. 51. — St. 2 — 3 
' Synonymous with the genus Sched&norus (Fries), not Beauv. 
