GRAMINA. 
193 
Stem 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves S-inches to 1 foot long. Spike 1 to 
4 inches long. Spikelets f to i inch long, exclusive of the awns. 
Wood Barley. 
SPECIES n.— H ORDEUM PRATENSE. Buds. 
Plate MDCCCXXI. 
Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. 1. Tab. CXVU. p. 251. 
Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 
H. secalinum, Schreh. Koch. Sjn. PI. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 955. Fries. Summ. 
Veg. Scand. p. 74. Gren. & Godr. PI. de Pr. Vol. III. p. 595. Pari. PL Ital 
Vol. I. p. 521. 
H. marinTim, var. fi. Linn. Spec. Plant, p. 126. 
Perennial, with barren shoots or barren stems. Rather loosely 
casspitose. Flowering stem erect from a shortly and slightly curved 
or geniculate base, which is clothed with broAvnish withered leaf- 
sheaths; knots glabrous. Leaves rather firm, narrowly linear, taper- 
ing from a little below the middle to the apex, very acute, with 
numerous slender rather approximate very scabrous nearly equal 
ribs, pubescent with rather short and rather stiff hairs, bright-green ; 
lowest sheath pubescent with rather short stiff reflexed hairs, all 
oblong-linear, parallel-sided, tetragonal, compressed, olive-green. 
Spikelets ascending, diverging slightly from the rachis, in threes, the 
lateral ones male, the central one perfect. Glumes of all the spikelets 
setaceous, insensibly attenuated into awns about twice their own 
length, very scabrous, as well as their awn. Central spikelet with 
its floret sessile, the lateral ones with their florets stipitate A\ithin 
the glumes. Lower pale of the central spikelets elliptical-linear, 
auiminare, entire, faintly 3-ribbed towards the apex, wholly glabrous, 
with a terminal awn about its own length, and as long as the awns of 
its glumes : lower p^ile of the lateral spikelets shorter and narrower 
than that of the CL-T\tral floret, very indistinctly ribbed and con- 
spicnou.<ly scabrous-pubescent towards the apex, otherwise glabrous, 
t(M-miriated by an awn shorter than its own length and much shorter 
than those of its glumes. 
In meadows and pastures, and on the drier parts of salt marshes. 
Frequent and generally distributed in England, especially near the 
coast. ^ ery rare in Scotland, and probably not nativ^e, except in the 
neighbourhood of Berwick, where it grows on the Scotch si(le of the 
Tweed, though this station, being within the Liberties of Berwick-on- 
Tweed, is politically in England ; the other stations given are Avr • 
