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with its floret sessile, the lateral ones with their florets indistinctly 
stipitate within the glumes. Lower pales of all the florets elliptical- 
linear, acuminate, entire; that -of the central floret strongly 3-ribbed 
throughout, wholly glabrous, with a terminal awn of more than three 
times its own length, and twice as long as the awns of the glumes : 
lower pale of the lateral florets exceeding that of the central floret, 
faintly 3-ribbed towards the apex, glabrous or slightly scabrous, pu- 
bescent towards the apex, terminated by an awn of about twice its 
own length, a little shorter than that of the central floret, but much 
exceeding those of the glumes. 
On dry banks by roadsides and in waste places, especially in the 
neighbourhood of towns and villages, and by the sea. Common and 
generally distributed in England and the south-east of Scotland. 
Jsorth of the Forth it is nearly restricted to the coast, extending to 
Kincardineshire, and as an introduced plant to Aberdeen and Moray. 
Very rare in Ireland, and confined to the south and east of the 
island. " Only in and about towns and buildings, possibly introduced " 
(" Cyb. Hib."). 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or Annual. Early Summer 
to Autumn. 
Usually biennial, but occasionally annual from plants springing from 
early ripened seeds, and flowering during the first year. Stems 
numerous, 6 inches to 2 feet high, weak, usually geniculate for about 
half their length, flowering in long succession. Leaves 2 to 6 inches 
long by \ to i inch broad. Spikes 2 to 4 inches long, perfect floret 
Y% to ^ inch long. Lateral florets y% to | inch long, exclusive of the 
awns ; fertile spikelet 1^^ to 2 inches long, including the awn. 
This can scarcely be confounded with H. pratense, for, irrespective 
of the characters derived from the glumes, pales, and awns, it may be 
recognised by the root not being perennial, without barren shoots, by 
its broader and more flaccid leaves, the uppermost leaf usually much 
nearer the panicle and with the sheath more inflated, by the spike 
being larger and much broader in proportion, with much longer and 
with less diverging awns, and by the whole plant having a glaucous 
tinge. 
Wall Barley. 
French, Orge qiime de rat German, Miiuse Gerste. 
SPECIES IY._HO ED BUM MARITIMUM. WUh. 
Plate MDCCCXXm. 
BeicJi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXVJl. Pig. 250. 
BlUof, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Eisicc. No. 1369. 
Biennial or annual, without barren shoots. Flowering stems erect 
