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SPECIES III— BROMUS E RECTUS. Huds. 
Plate MDCCXCVI. 
Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXLYI. Fig. 360. 
Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1093. 
Schedonoms erectas, Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 76, 
Perennial. Very densely C£espitose. Rootstock shortly creeping, 
but not stoloniferous, each branch ending in tufts of several flowering 
stems and barren shoots or short barren stems. Flowering stems 
rather stout, wiry. Leaves rigid, very narrowly linear, the radical 
ones and those of the barren shoots conduplicate, ciliated ; those of the 
stem broader, flat or widely channelled, glabrous, all dark green; 
sheaths split only at the apex, deeply striate, usually pilose with 
distant spreading-ascending hairs, or nearly glabrous, the uppermost 
one about as long as its leaf ; ligule short, broader than long, trun- 
cate. Panicle erect, nearly simple, rather small, dense, contracted, 
oblong in flower and fruit. Rachis with rather distant nodes, glabrous 
or slightly scabrous. Panicle-branches 2 to 5 at the lower nodes of the 
rachis, most of them bearing only a single spikelet, not more than 2 
at each node bearing 2 or 3 spikelets, these being bare of spikelets 
and unbranched for about half their length, nearly erect in flower 
and fruit, slightly scabrous. Spikelets erect, linear-fusiform-cylin- 
drical before flowering, afterwards oblong and compressed, 4- to 12- 
flowered. Glumes lanceolate, with subulate points, very acute, but not 
awned, narrowly scabrous on the margins, the upper one about one- 
sixth longer than the lower, and with 3 prominent ribs, the lower one 
with I rib. Florets widely open during the time of flowering, 
Lower pale oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shortly bidentate, with 
rather narrow scarious margins and apices, with 5 or 7 rather faint 
scabrous-pubescent ribs. Awn from the bottom of the notch of the 
pale, about one half of the length of the pale. Ovary woolly at the 
apex. Stigma springing from a little below the apex of the ovary. 
Var. a, genuinus. 
Lower pale glabrous or nearly so, except on the ribs. 
Yar. 3, villo^u^. 
Lower pale hairy all over. 
On dry banks and pastures and by road-sides, in chalky and sandy 
soils, Not unfitiquent in the south and east of England, but rare in 
