GEAMINA. 
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with 2 or 3 spikelets, and mostly all shorter than the spikelets (exclu- 
sive of the awns), suberect in flower and fruit, slightly scabrous or 
pubescent. Spikelets erect, linear-elliptical before flowering, oblong 
and enlarged upwards during flowering, and inversely triangular with 
concave sides in fruit, 5- to 15 -flowered. Glumes subulate, very acute, 
but not awned, broadly scarious on the margins, the upper one about 
thrice as long as the lower, and with 3 prominent ribs, the lower with 
1 rib. Florets distinct, diverging and slightly curved outwards in fruit. 
Lower pale linear-lanceolate -subulate, deeply bidentate, with 2 long 
apical teeth about one-sixth the length of the pale, with rather broad 
scarious margins and apices, with 7 rather faint ribs, of which the two 
marginal ones are contiguous, finely punctate-scabrous, or more rarely 
pubescent. Awn from the bottom of the notch of the pale, about as 
long as the pale, straight in flower, curved outwards in fruit. Sta- 
mens 2, more rarely 1 or 3. 
Yar. a, Curtisii. Bab. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXLH. Fig. 342. 
B. Madritensis, Bdm. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. Vol. 11. p. C48. Belch. Ic. 1. c. p. 41. 
Panicle oblong, rather dense. Rachis and panicle -branches slightly 
scabrous, not pubescent. Glumes and pales minutely punctate- 
scabrous, but not pubescent. 
Yar. 3, rigidus. Bab. 
Beich Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXLII. Fig. 341. 
B. rigidus, ''Both;" Bam. & SchuUes, Sjst. Veg. Vol. II. p. 651. Beich. Ic. I.e. p. 
41. (non Koch). 
Panicle very dense, inversely deltoid. Rachis and panicle-branches 
minutely pubescent, the latter very short. Glumes and pales pubes- 
cent with long close hairs. 
On sandy banks and dry waste places, and on wall-tops. Local and 
confined to the south of England, from Devon, mainland Hants, and 
Kent; to Pembroke, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, and Gloucester, and 
formerly near Battersea, Surrey. As a casual it has been found in 
several counties as far north as Durham. Tipperary, Ireland, pro- 
bably not native. Yar. 3, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark, also as a 
casual on the ballast -hills on the coast of Fife. 
England, [Ireland] ? Annual or Biennial. Summer. 
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