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ft. high, erect. Root-1. convolute ; upper 1. broadest ; sheaths 
^ somewhat hair}' with upward liairs. — /3. villosm ; lower pale 
^ hairy. — On dry sand}- and chaUcy soil. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
9 2. B. as'per (L.) ; pan. drooping with long slightly divided 
M branches, spikelets lanceolate, n. remote linear-lauceolate, lower 
re pale hairy 5 — T-ribbcd, lowest H. twice exceeding the upper gl. 
and longer than its awn, /. b oad hairy. — E. B. 1172. P. 51. — 
I ' St. 4 — 5 feet high. L. ilat ; lower ones broade.st ; sheaths with 
downward hairs. — Damp woods and thickets. P. ? VII. E. S. I. 
s ** Spikelets alwai/s broader ttpimrds. Ribs of upper jial^ 
5 1 strongly fringed. A%cn long. 
B. ster'ilis (Ij.); pan. drooping, branches long slightly di- 
vided, spikelets linear-lanceolate, fl. remote, lower pale glabrous 
shorter than its awn %cith 7 distinct equidistant ribs, 1. pubescent, 
j — JJ.J5.1030. P. 50.— Height 1—2 feet. L. broad, flat.— Waste 
places. A. VI. E. S. I. 
4. B. dian'drm (Curt.) ; panicle erect, branches short scai'cely 
divided, spikelets lanceolate, fl. linear remote subcylindiical, 
loicer about as long as its awn 1-ribbed, 2 lateral ribs 
close together, inter m. rib faint. — E. B. 1006. P. 50. — a. B. ma- 
dritenms (L.) ; 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. [)3. Chamiel 
' Islands.] A. VI. VH. ' ' E. S. 
[B. tectdrum (L.) ; like B. diandrns, pan. secund drooping, 
upper pale much the shorter. — Hoddesdon, Herts : introduced.] 
[5. max'itnus (Desf.) ; pan. erect lax a* length nodding, 
branches slightly divided lengthened after flowering, spikelets 
do^Tiy, loicer pale 7-ribbed about half as long as its aton. — 
B. B. S. 2820. P. 115. Pamell's tigiu-e misrepres'ents the 
styles as terminal. — Height 1 — 2 feet. A most beautiful grass. 
— Sandy places. Channel Islands. A. \TI.] 
44. Siebafal'cus Parlatore^. 
*1. iS. secalinus (Bab.) ; pan. loose drooping in fr. slightly 
compoimd, simple peduncles about as long as the oblong gla- 
brous spilcelets, fl. at first loosely uubricate afterwards distmct 
and cylindrical about as long as the straight awn, lower pale not 
overlapping the next fl. uniformlv rounded at the sides, 1. haiiT. 
—E.B. 1171. P. 49, 121 & 122.— With seed the fl. spread 
' Correspouds to the genus Broimis of Fries ; to part of Bromtis of 
Sm., Hook., &e. 
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