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and longly awned, subherbaceous. Pales 2, the lower one rounded 
on the back, longly awned, or rarely not awned in the lateral spike- 
lets, subherbaceous. Upper pale 2-toothed, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, 
entire. Stamens 3. Stigmas 2, inserted a little below the summit 
of the ovary, sessile, plumose, usually protruded at the sides of the 
floret between the basal margins of the pales. Caryops adhering to 
the pales, pubescent at the apex, convex on the back, furrowed on 
the inner face. 
" Hordeum," tlie Latin name of barley. 
SPECIES L-HORDEUM STLVATICUM. Suds. 
Plate MDCCCXX. 
Beicli. Tc. Fl. Germ, ct Holv. Vol. I. Tab. CXV. Fig. 216. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 490. 
Eh-mus Earopeus, Linn. h.^i. Eiie. Bot. vd. i. Xo. 1:]17 and En.rrl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 178. 
K>n-<fJi, Euum. Fl. e,l. i. p. -Wyl. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, ct Hulv. e.l. ii. p. C»:-4 
/•V-W, Summ. Ve- So.uul p 74. G,v.. & r,.„lr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 597. 
Tad. Fl. Ttal. Vol. I. p. 5-24. lleich. Ic. I.e. p. 28. 
Perenriiul, with barren slioots. Loosely ca^spitosc. Flowering stems, 
erect, from a shortly and slightly curved base, which is clothed with 
brownish fibres derived from decayed leaf sheaths; knots pubescent. 
Leaves broadly linear, tapering from a little below the middle to the 
apex, very acute, with numerous slender distant scabrous unequal ribs, 
usually thinly pubescent with rather long soft hairs, bright but 
rather dark green ; sheaths pubescent, with rather short and stiff 
reflexed hairs, the uppermost one usually subglabrous; ligule very 
short, truncate. Spike erect, fusiform-cylindrical. Spikelets adpressed 
to the rachis, in threes, the lateral ones perfect, sometimes with a 
second floret, the central one usually male. Glumes of the lateral 
spikelet linear-subulate, insensibly attenuated into awns of about 
their own length, not ciliated, those of the central spikelet nar- 
rower when it is male, smooth, with the awn scabrous. Florets all 
sessile within the glumes. Lower pales elliptical-Hnear, acuminate, 
bidentate, faintly 3-nerved and scabrous towards the apex. Awn 
from the bottom of the notch of the pale, and usually about twice its 
length. 
in woods and copses, chiefly on chalk and limestone. Rare. Ex- 
tending from Wilts, Hants, Kent, and Essex, north to Chester and 
Ivorthumberland. Tery rare in Ireland, where the only station is a 
shrubbery on the terrace at Blount Merrion, Dublin; bat the authors 
of the Cybele Hibernica " believe it to be native there. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
