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3. Stigmas 2, terminal, sessile, plumose, protruded at tlie sides of the 
floret between the basal margins of the pales. Caryops free, or rarely 
adhering to the upper pale, wholly glabrous, oblong, convex on the 
back, broadly furrowed on the inner face. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is supposed to be from limim, flax ; and 
colo, I till. 
SPECIES I.— L OLIUM PERENNE. " Linn.," Booh. fil. 
Plates MDCCCXIY. MDCCCXV. 
Perennial, biennial, or annual. Spikelets 3- to 20-flowered, linear- 
elliptical, tapering from the middle to the apex, not truncate. Glumes 
shorter than the spikelets (except in monstrous forms), equalling or 
shorter than the contiguous floret. Florets linear-lanceolate, slightly 
curved on the inner margin in profile, not turgid in fruit. Lower 
pale not indurated in fruit, elliptical-linear, obtuse or faintly notched 
with blunt cusps, not aAvned or with a slender awn. Caryops linear- 
oblong, about half the length of and a little narrower than the pales. 
Sub-Species l— Lolium eu-perenne. 
Plate MDCCCXIV. 
Be!cl. Ic. Fl. Germ, et ILAv. Vol. I. Tab. CXII. Fig. 35. 
BlUnt, Fl. Gall, et (Jerm. Exsicc. Xo. ■i77><. 
L. [,eivMu-. .1 /'■' ■.-. ^<:i. En- Bot. ed. i. Xo. ^15, ic. 
r-ren shoots. Flowering stems several, usually 
d ; 'i:ite at the base. Leaves narrowly linear, taper- 
.|;ex, deep green. Spikelets closely applied to 
tht 1 , , ~, . V iiii'ing the time of flowering, when they diverge 
eli'ditlv. o- to li-dowered. Lower pale not awned. 
Yar. a. (jenuimun, Godr. 
Spike robust. Spiktdets 7- to 11-flowered. 
L. tenue, Liiui. Spec. Plant, p. 122 (non (.ru-^^.). 
Spike slender. Spikelets 3- to 4-flowered. Whole plant much more 
slender than in var. a. 
In meadows and pastures and by roadsides, &;c. Very common and 
generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Irehmd. Ferennird. Summer. 
Plant grovdng in small tufrs, witli the stems more or less leaning 
