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Sub-Species n. — FestUCa PseudO-myurOS. Sm/er-WiUemet. 
Plate MDCCLXXXI. 
Betch. Ic. n. aerm. et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXXX. Fig. 290. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, efc Germ. Exsicc. No. 487. 
F. Mjoros, Poll 8m. Engl. Bofc. ed. i. No. 1412, and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 143. Bab. 
Man. Brit. Bot. ed. ri. p. 18. Kunth, Entun. Plant. Vol I. p. 396. 
F. bromoides, var. /3, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 557. 
Vnlpia Pseudo-mjurcs, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 37, and Ic. 1. c. p. 34. Gren. & Qodr. 
Fl. de Fr. Vol. IH. p. 564. 
V. Mynros, Gmel. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 13. 
V. Mynros, var. «. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. 418. 
Stems erect, slightly geniculate at the base. Uppermost sheath 
reaching nearly or quite up to the panicle. Panicle drooping at the 
apex, at least in luxuriant specimens, occupying from one-half to one- 
third of the whole length of the stem, rather dense, tapering towards 
the apex, slightly interrupted below, continuous above, linear, di- 
stichously sub-unilateral, branched towards the base only. Lowest 
panicle -branches from one-sixth to one-tliird the length of the panicle. 
Upper glume subulate, 2 to 3 times as long as the lower one, and a 
little more than half the length of the contiguous floret, exclusive of 
the awn of the latter. Florets green, slightly enlarged upwards after 
flowering. Lower pale not ciliated, punctate-scabrous. 
On wall-tops and on dry waste ground. Rather common, and 
widely distributed in England, extending from Cornwall, Dorset, Isle 
of Wight, and Kent, north to Chester and York. Rare in Ireland, 
Middleton, County Cork (the Rev. T. Albin), Fermoy, Cork, and 
near Holly Mount, Mayo (Cyb. Hib.) 
England, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Stems 8 to 30 inches high. Leaves 1 to 4 inches long, very narrow, 
soon becoming convolute and filiform, without raised ribs on the 
upper side, green, not glaucous. Panicle 3 inches to 1 foot long, 
tapering towards the apex, which is always dense and subspicate, 
with the pedicels very short and not conspicuously thickened upwards, 
and regularly distichous. Spikelets | to \ inch long, exclusive of 
the awns. Awns whitish. 
Distinguished from F. amblgua by its taller stems ; by its longer and 
laxer panicle, drooping at the apex in luxuriant specimens, more inter- 
rupted towards the base, and more distichous than unilateral towards 
the apex; by the spikelets being less closely adpressed to the rachis; 
also by the glumes being less unequal and more acuminate. Still I do 
