ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. 3, triflorus. 
Plate MDCCXCIV. 
Spikelets 3- or 4-flowered. 
Plant smaller, leaves narrower, panicle less drooping and less secund, 
and spikelets more lanceolate than in var. a. 
In woods and in hedges. Rather common and generally distributed 
in England, more rare and local in Scotland, though extending as far 
north as Argyle and Elgin. Frequent throughout Ireland. Var. 0 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial Summer, Autumn. 
Stems 2 to 4 feet high or more. Longest leaves 9 to 18 inches long, 
by 4 to I broad, the uppermost and lowermost shorter and narrower 
than those on the middle of the stem, all awned at the base. Panicle 
9 mches to 1 foot long or more. Spikelets pale green, 3 to f inch 
long, exclusive of the awns. 
^ Var. 3 is Httle more than a smaller state of the plant, and it is dif- 
ficult to draw any liue between it and var. a. 
This plant is intermediate in its characters between Festuca and 
Bromus. It has the habit and awn of the latter, but the glabrous 
ovary and termmal styles of the Festuca?, and the inner pale is less 
ciliated on the ribs than in Bromus. I have retained the plant in 
the genus Bromus, in which Linnteus placed it, on account of its 
extreme similarity to Bromus asper, and unlikeness to any of the true 
FestuciE. 
Tall Brome- Grass. 
French, Fehuiu^ elancee. German, Eiesen ScJudugel. 
SPECIES IL_BROMUS ASPER. JW-.y. 
Plate MDCCXCV. 
B. ramosus, Ruch. Fl. Angl. ed. i. p. 40 (non Linn). 
Schedonorus a^jper, Fries, Smnm. Veg. Scand. p. 76. 
Perennial. Rather loosely cajspitose. Rootstock not creeping or 
stoIonifVrous, pro<lucing several tali flowering or short barren stems. 
Howernig .-^tems stout. Leaves flaccid, arching, very l)roudly linear, 
- y rapering from a little below the middle to the apex, 
n.i-t, with very numerous broad unequally raised slirrhtly 
i.airy ribs, and scabrous margins, bright green; sheaths 
■■■ apex. \,ut not half way down, sidcutc, hii-^ute with 
