GRAMINA. 
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mud dredged from the Thames and deposited on the ground now 
occupied by Battersea Park. 
Italia7i Bye-Grass. 
French, Ivraie rlltalie. German, Italienisches Rai/gras. 
SPECIES n.— LOLIXTM TEMXTLENTUM. Linn. 
Plates MDCCCXYI. MDCCCXYH. 
Annual. Spikeleta ultimately wedge-shaped, very obtuse or trun- 
cate at the apex, 3- to 9-flowered. Glumes as long as or longer than 
the spikelets, and many times exceeding the contiguous floret. Florets 
turgid in fruit, half ovate-ovoid, greatly curved on the inner margin 
in profile. Lower pale somewhat indurated in fruit, oval, deeply 
notched with subacute cusps, with a stout awn of variable length, or not 
awned. Caryops oblong-ovoid, nearly as long as and as broad as the 
upper pale. 
Yar. a, genuinum. 
Plate ^IDCCCXVI. 
Reic},. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXI. Figs. 231 and 233. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3944. 
L. temulentum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1124, and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 174. 
Awns longer than the pales. 
Yar. 3, arvense. 
Plate MDCCCXVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CX. Fig. 229, 
Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 491. 
L. arvense, With. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1125 ; Engl. Fl. Tol. I. p. 174 (non 
Schrad. nec Reich.). 
L. robustnm, Reich. Fl. Germ. Excnrs. p. 139, and Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. p. 25. 
Awns shorter than the l^orets or absent. 
In cultivated fields. Rather rare, though widely distributed, extend- 
ing north to Arg^-le and Moray, though it is not more than naturalised 
in Scotland, whatever it may be in England. Locally abundant in 
Ireland. 
England, [Scotland], Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Stems farciculate, sometimes branched fi*om the lower nodes, 8 
inches to 3 feet high or more. Leaves 2 to 8 inches long by ^ to |- 
inch broad, tapering gradually to the very acute apex. Spike 2 inches 
to 1 foot long. Spikelets -^"to f inch long, exclusive of the awns. 
