88 43. Ophiurus. 10. GRAMINEiE. PL end. plu 
Fields and meadows near the sea ; annual; August. 
Culm rather compressed, very smooth, shining, kneed, 
procumbent at bottom; leaves spreading, short smooth on 
the back; sheaths rather tumid, compressed ; Li gala very 
short, truncate; spike and rachis smooth; spat Julies when 
in full flower patent, nearly equal, 3-ribbed ; outer spat he lie 
larger, 1 -ribbed. 
2. Ophiurus er ectus . Upright suakdaiL 
Spike round, subulate, rather compressed, upright ; spa - 
thelles 2, swordshape, 1 -flowered; fiowret awnless; leaves 
channelled, subulate. 
Rottbollia erecta, Savi Giorn. Pis. 4, 230. 
Rottbollia filiformis, Willd. S. P. 1,464. 
Rottbollia incurvata 0, De Gand. Syn. FI. Fr. 1653. 
Fields near the sea ; perennial ? August. 
III. 44. HORDEUM. Theophrastus. Bere« 
Locusice 3 in each tooth of the rachis, 1 -flowered, all the 
florets fertile ; spathelles 2, awlshape ; loner spatheliule 
bristle pointed; upper spatheliule not nicked, rather ob- 
tuse; lodicule blunt, not nicked, smooth ; ovary bearded at 
the tip ; stigmata villose; cariopsis husky, furrowed. — Raphis 
jointed, toothed, spiked; spike not branched. 
Cultivated largely for malting, especially in Scotland. 
1. Hordeum hexastichum . Six-row here . 
Seeds disposed in six rows. 
Hordeum polystiehum hybernum, Raii Syn. 388, 3, confounded with 
hordeum tetrastiehum. 
Hordeum hexastichon, Lin. S. P. 125. 
Hordeum vulgare j9, Lam. FI. Fr. 623. 
Full 6-sided big or here. Round barley. Winter barley. Greek barley. 
Cultivated, sown in autumn; biennial; June and July. 
Root and leaves like hordeum distichum ; culm 3 feet 
high ; spike cylindrical, nearly erect ; beards more than 
twice as long as the spikes ; cariopsis spread out. 
Used as food for horses in warm countries, and for 
malting. 
2. Hordeum tetrastichum. Four-row here • 
Seeds in four row 2 * * * * 7 s. 
Hordeum polystiehum, Raii Syn. 388, 3 ; Park. 1130. 
Hordeum polystiehum vernum, Ger. cm, 10. 
Hordeum vulgare, Lin. S. P. 125. 
Triticum vulgare, Salis. Prod. 27. 
Square Barky. Big . Bear . 
