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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Salisbury Craigs, Edinburgh, where it does not now exist ; Kincardine, 
Clackmannan; and St. Andrew's, Fife. Local, and usually near the 
coast in the south and east of Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Flowering stems few or rather numerous, 1 to 3 feet high, slender, 
stiff, flowering nearly together. Barren stems 1 to 8 inches high. 
Leaves 1 to 5 inches long, by ^ to ^ inch broad, the uppermost stem 
leaf generally shorter and broader than the others. Spike 1^ to 5 
inches long. Perfect florets | inch long, later florets ^ inch long 
in both cases, exclusive of the awns. Fertile spikelets i to | inch, 
inclusive of the awns. 
Grenier & Godron, and some other authors, strangely enough, state 
that tliis species is biennial. It is as truly perennial as Cynosurus 
cristatus or Dactylis glomerata. 
Meadow Barley, 
SPECIES in.-H ORDEUM MURINUM. Linn. Auct. 
Plate MDCCCXXI. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. I. Tab. CXVII. Fig. 249. 
Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1599. 
Biennial or annual, without barren shoots. Flowering stems as- 
cending, from a longly geniculate base; knots glabrous. Leaves 
very flaccid, broadly linear, tapering from the base to the apex, very 
acate, with numerous slender distant slightly-scabrous unequal ribs, pu- 
bescent with rather short and rather stifl:' hairs, pale green, slightly glau- 
cous ; lowest sheath usually pubescent, with rather short and rather 
stiff hairs, all except the lowest always glabrous ; ligule very short, 
truncate. Spike erect or slightly inclined, broadly oblong linear, usually 
slightly enlarged upwards, tetragonal, much compressed, glaucous- 
green. Spikelets ascending-erect, scarcely diverging from the rachis, 
in threes, the lateral ones male, the central one perfect. Glumes of 
the central floret lanceolate-linear, attenuated into awns of about 
twice their own length, ciliated with long stiff hairs : inner glume of 
the lateral spikelet linear-subulate, insensibly attenuated into an awn 
about three times its own length, and a little shorter than those of 
the central spikelet, scabrous, and ciliated with rather short hairs on 
the inner side (in the British form, but sometimes on both sides in a 
south European form): outer glume of the lateral spikelets setaceous and 
awn-like throughout, scabrous, with the point of its awn exceeding by 
a little that of the central floret, and consequently more conspicuously 
that of the inner glume of the lateral spikelets. Central spikelet 
