ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Florets i to ^ inch long, exclusive of tlie awns. EacMs sometimes 
smooth, sometimes pulverulent, scabrous. 
Readily distinguishable from all the forms of L. perenne by its 
blunt or truncate fruiting spikelets, long rigid glumes, turgid florets, 
and large brown caryops. 
Lolium linicola, Sonder^ is a very distinct plant, which, strangely 
enough, has been confounded with the variety of L. temulentum 
termed L. arvense by Withering. It may be readily known from L. 
temulentum by its more slender stem ; by its narrower leaves ; by 
the spikelets tapering slightly from beyond the middle to the apex, 
which is obtuse but not truncate ; by the glume being little shorter 
than, or at most equal to, the spikelet, though always as long as, or 
longer than the contiguous floret ; by the florets being narrower and 
less turgid, the lower pales less indurated, and by the carj^ops being 
considerably smaller and narrower in proportion. The awn is entirely 
absent, or more rarely present, and then very short. It cannot be 
considered as a naturalised plant, though it has occurred in flax fields 
in several places. 
Common Darnel. 
French, Ivrnn> rx-V German, Taumel Lohh. 
Tribe XIII._PtOTTBOELLIE.E. 
Spikelets open during flowering, sessile, arranged in a simple, di- 
stichous or unilateral spike, the rachis of which is excavated to receive 
them, and has at each notch a single solitary spikelet, containing a 
snigle perfect floret, and sometimes a superior rudiment. Glumes 2 
or 1. Stigmas 2, sessile, protruded at the base of the florets between 
the margins of the pales. Caryops dorsally compressed, with a furrow 
on the inner face. 
GENUS XLHL—L E P T U R U S. Br, 
Spikelets quite sessile, solitary, arranged alternately in a simple 
spike, in the excavations of the rachis of which they are ccmpletely 
sunk when closed, open during flowering, each containing a single 
perfect floret, with the stalk-like rudiment of a second neuter one 
ahove it. Glumt.'S 2 in the terminal floret nearly equal; 2 or 1 in all 
the lateral floret^, both of them or the only one on the side of the 
tipikelet furthest from tlie rachis, as h>ng as or longer than the floret, not 
awned, manv-nervcd. subcoriaceous. Pules 2, scarious, the lower one 
not awiitMl. the upper 2-toothtd, 2-ribbed. Lodicules 2, entire. Stamens 
3. Srigrnas 2, sessile, plumose, protruded at the sides of the flower 
between the ba.sal margins of the pales. Caryops free, wholly gla^ 
