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the north and west. Doubtfully native in Scotland, though it has 
been found in New Abbey Churchyard, Kirkcudbright, below Salis- 
bury Craigs, Edinburgh, and near Pettycur and Dunfermline, Fife. 
Rare in Ireland, but occurring in Counties Cork and Galway, and 
near Dubhn. Var. /3. Combe Hay, near Bath (Mr. T. Dutton). 
England, Scotland ( ?), Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Stems 18 inches to 3 feet high or more, with their bases enclosed 
in decayed leaf-sheaths. Longest leaves 6 inches to 1 foot long or 
more ; stem-leaves shorter and broader, | to ^ inch broad. Panicle 
2i to 6 inches long. Spikelets | to 1:| inch long, exclusive of the 
awn. Florets | to f inch long. Spikelets prettily variegated with 
green, pale red or purple, and white, somewhat like those of Avena 
pratensis and pubescens. Anthers reddish-purple. 
Uprigh t-perennial Brome- Grass . 
Frencli, Brome dresse. German, Aufmrlih^ Trespe. 
Section II.— EU-BROMUS. Gren. & Godr. 
Spikelets enlarged towards the apex during and after flowering. 
Florets scarcely open during flowering. Lower pale subulate, semi- 
cyhndrical, keeled, with an a^vn exceeding its length, usually very 
greatly so. Stamens 2 or 3, rarely 1. 
Biennials or annuals. 
SPECIES lY.-BEOMUS M ADRITENSIS. Lh,,,. 
Pr.WE MDCCXCYII. 
nninf, n. Call. et Corm. Exsico. No, 10'. H. 
B. diandrus, Ciirf. Ih'l. M;ui. HHt. Bot. ed. vl. p. 421. .S',,;. Engl. Hot. ed. i. Xo. 
lOOf) ; and Ensl VI Vol. I. p. IGO. 
B. polystachyus, B.C. Fl. Fr. Vol. Y. p. 276. 
Biennial or Annual. Stems rather slender, erect from a more or 
less geniculate or curved base. Leaves narrowly linear, more or less 
pubescent, or the up[)ermost one glabrous; sheaths split half wav down, 
cylirtdri(.'al. pubescent, or one or two of the upper ones ghibrous; lioule 
pn.niinont, about as long again as broad, lanceolate. Panicle erect, 
rather small, nearly simple, dense or rather dense, contracted. Rachis 
with approximate or rather approximate nodes, faintly scabrous or 
pubescent. Panicle-branches 2 to 6 at the lower nodes of the rachis, 
rarely bearing more than a single spikeiet, sometimes 1 or 2 of them 
