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split at the apex only, pubescent with short or long reflexed hairs. 
Panicle erect or secundly drooping in flower and fruit, simple or 
rarely slightly branched, lax in flower, contracted in fruit. Rachis 
with rather distant nodes. Panicle-branches 2 to 3 at the lower nodes 
of the rachis, unequal, all reduced to pedicels, or a few of the longest 
ones at the lower nodes with from 2 to 3 spikelets, unbranched and 
bare of spikelets for half their length, not more than the length 
of two internodes, the shortest of the lower ones and all those in the 
upper part of the panicle reduced to pedicels, scabrous. Longest 
pedicels longer than or about equal to their spikelets, the upper 
ones usually shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets erect or drooping 
in flower and fruit, at first oval-lanceolate or lanceolate, ultimately 
oval- or oblong-lanceolate, always acute, 4- to 10-flowered, green 
or more or less tinged with brownish-purple. Glumes unequal, the 
inner or largest one extending half way to the apex of the fourth 
floret.* Florets closely imbricated in flower and fruit. Lower pale, 
regularly curved on the margins from the base to the apex, or with a 
very obtuse angle a little beyond the middle on each side, 5-ribbed, 
notched at the apex, glabrous or puberulent, rarely pubescent, with 
narrow scarious margins. Awn from the bottom of the notch of the 
pale, straight and erect, as long as, or a little longer, than the pide. 
Lpper pale a Httle shorter than the lower. 
Sub-Species I.— Bromus eu-racemosus. 
PiATR :\rDCcciiT. 
T^^^rl. Ic. Fl. GuTTn c-t Holv. Vol. T. Tab. CXLIII. Fi^r. 348. 
Billot Fl Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. 21S5. 
B. ract'iui^va^, Fru'>; Mant. 111. p. 10, and Summ. Yeg. Scand. p. 76. Sm. Engl. 
Bot. od. i. No. lOru. K.u% Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 94ti. 
Serrafalcus racornosus. PnrJ. Fl. Ital. Vol. 1. p. 301. Bah. Fl. Camb. p. 308, & ^laji. 
Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 422. (JreH. Fl. du Jure, p. 922. 
Panicle erect in flower and fruit. Panicle-lrranches all rarely more 
than l-flowered, the upper ones much shorter than their spikelet?. 
Spikelets ultimately oval-lanceolate, acute. Lower pale uniformly 
curved on the margins fn^ru the base to the apex, " Anthers four 
times as long as broad." ( Bab.) 
In meadows and damp pu^tu^es. Said to be not uncommon, but I 
myself have seen specimens from no other localities than the Isle of 
AVig'it, Surrey, Middlesex, and Cheshire, though there is >uflieient 
authority for its occurrence in Cambridge and Beds ; the Rev. W. \\\ 
* i.e. the second on the same side of spikelets. 
