166 
ENGLISH BOTANT. 
Var. 3, velutinus. 
Plate MDCCCI. 
Jleicli. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Yol. I. Tab. CXCIV. Fig. 350. 
Billot, ¥\. Gall, et Germ. p]xsicc. No. ] 85. 
B. velutinus, Schrad. Sni. En<rl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 159. 
B. multiHorn.s. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1884. 
Sheaths pubescent with short hairs. Panicle-branches hispid- 
pubescent. Si)ikelets tincly pubescent. Awns erect. 
In cultivated iiclds, and occasionally by roadsides. Rather scarce. 
Generally but tlunly distributed throughout En,i^land, but not persis- 
tent in its stations. Imperfectly naturalised in Scotland, thoucrh it 
has been found as far north as Koss and Isla. Uncertain in its 
appearance, and ill-established in Ireland, though extending from 
north to south. Var. 3. is more rare and less thoroughly established 
in England than var. a.; it appears to be most frequent in the Metro- 
politan counties. 
England [Scotland] [Ireland]. Biennial or annual ( ?). 
bummer, Autumn. 
Stems 1 to 2 feet high, or more. Leaves 2 to 8 inches lonjr. bv \ 
to { inch broad. Panicle 2 to 10 inches long. Spikelets |- to 1 inch 
long, exclusi\'e of the awns. Florets ]- to {'., inch lono-. 
lieadily distinguishable from all its alfies occurring in P>ritain 
bv the florets being conipktelv >ei)ararcd irom each otlier when in 
fruit. 
Many authors di\nde this species into two varieties according to the 
size of the spikelets ; the type being the form with smaller spikelets, 
whether tliey be glal)rons or pul)cscent : the second form, Bromus 
<:tos.>us, B. 6\, being that with larger >pikclets, and with the florets 
more separated in fruit on account of the margin> of the lower pale 
extending beyond the caryops, and consequently becoming more 
Kcichenbach figures a variety divergem^^ in which the a\\'n3 are 
as rimch bent outwards as in B. patulus, but I am not aware of the 
occurrence of this form in Britain. 
French, S.rrnfalcvs Seljh: Geraian. Tu-j'rn Trc.p^. 
SPECIES VIII.— B EOMUS KACEMOSUS. ' LUu: Uouk. fil. 
Plates MDCCCII. iTDCCCIIL 
BiL-nniaL Stem erect or a.^cending. faintly puberulcnt, more pubes- 
cent on the knots. Leaves thinly pubescent, deep green j sheaths 
