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EXGLISn BOTANY. 
lonir, with 8 to 12 spikelets. Spikclets i to 1^ lon<r, sometimes 
sliuhtlv curved outwards when it is Broirms corniculatiis, "Zatw. Fl. Fr. 
Vol. III. p. 608. Florets f inch long. 
Very similar to B. sylvaticurn, but always distino^uishable by its 
creeping root. The stems are more rigid. The leaves are stiffer and more 
erect, and become involute AvhcM withered from the shrivelling of the 
thick ribs on tlie upper surface. The spikelets are broader in the 
middle and more nearly erect. Tne awns are much shorter. The 
lower pale broader, and tlie up{)er pale longer and broader. 
Barren Fahe-Brome-Grass. 
French, BracJiypode prumeMe. 
GEXUS XLL—T R I T I C U M. Linn, 
Spikelets quite sessile, solitary, arranged alternately with their 
broadsides to the rachis in a distichous simple spike, laterally com- 
pressed, flat on both ^ides or turgid, usually open during flowering, 
each containing 2 to 12 perfect florets, generally with 1 or 2 male 
or neuter floret- above them. (Humes 2, opposite, placed right and 
left of the rachis, equal, >horter than the florets, rounded or keeled 
on the back, many nerved, obtuse or awncd, subcoriaccou^ or sub- 
herbaceous. Pales 2 ; the lower one concave, entire, apiculate or 
awncd, subherbaccous or subcoriaceou- ; upper pale 2-toothed or 
notched, 2-rii.)bed. Lodicules 2, entire. Stamens 3 Stigmas 2, 
sessile, terminal, plumose, usually protruderl at the si.les of the floret 
betwtM n the ba<al m:ir-in< of tlie i)ah's, or included. Caryops free 
or adhei-ing to the U])[)er pale, pilo.sc at the apex, oblong, convex on 
the back, furrowed on the inner face. 
All the IJriti^h spocinuMi-. belong to the section Agropvrum, having 
the spikelets nc^t turgid, and being perennial plants.' 
Tlie name of tU< ircnu. conic- fr .ra tl.c T.-itiu an cvd f. ,■' . io hvni^o, bocauso its pro- 
duce is ground into Honr. 
spEciKs i.-triticum: caninum. niuu. 
vix:v. ^^I)('^CTX. 
l\: Vol. ITT. p. mo. 
.ot at all cree[)ing. without stolons. 
