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50. Lo'lium Linn. Rye-grass. 
1. L. peren'ne (L.); with leafy barren shoots, edges of young 
I. simpli/ folded, spikelets 3 — 11-Howered, gl. equalling' the 
lowest fi., lower pale usually awnless. — E. B. 315. P. 65. — 
St. 12 — 18 in. high, usually bent at the lower knots. Wbole 
plant rather dark gi-een. — /3. aristatum ; lower pale with a long 
awn. — y. L. tenue (L.) ; spikelets few-flowered, 1. slender. — 
Sometimes the spikelets become converted into branches ; or the 
rachis is so much shortened as to prodiice a broad ovate close 
distichous spike. — Common. P. VI. Rye-grass. E. S. I. 
[Z. itaVicum (A. Braun) ; with leafy ban-en shoots, edges of 
young I. involute, spikelets 9 — 14-flowered, lower pale with a 
long awn.— i2. vii. 77. L. perenne. 'P. 1.38 — 141. — St. many, 
straight, in close tifts, 1| — 3 ft. high. Whole plant, especially 
the spikelets, paler than in the preceding. Ligide short, abrupt. 
— L. muliijiornni (Lam.), perhaps confounded with this, has 
no barren shoots and is annual. — Cidtivated fields. P. VI. 
Italian Rye-grass.^ E. 
[Z. linic'ola (Sond.) ; no barren shoots, spikelets 7 — 11-flow- 
ered exceeding the gl., lower pale longer than its awn or awn- 
less, fl. tumid with fruit. — E. JB. 2955. — St. erect. Spike slender. 
Lower pale cartilaginous below, narrower than the upper, tumid 
in fruit. — Cultivated fields. Sussex. Yorkshire. A. VI. VII.] 
E. 
2. Z. temidcn'tum (L.); no barren shoots, spikelets about G- 
flowered equalling or shorter than the gl., lower pale a\vned, fl. 
tumid ^vith fruit.— Z;. R. 1124. P. 142.— St. erect. Ligule short. 
Upper gl. usually present, often bifid. — a. ; awns as long or 
longer than the pale. — /3. Z. arvense (With.) ; fl. 4 — 5 without 
or with short awns. E. R. 1125. — Cidtivated fields. A. VI. — 
VIII. Darnel. E. S. I. 
