94* 48. Lolium. 10 . GR AMINE Ai 
PL end . phi 
2 . Lolium temulentum . Intoxicating darneh 
Spike bearded ; locustce smaller than the glume ; root 
annual ; culm rough above. 
Lolium album, Rail Syn. 395, 1 ; Ger.erii . 78; Park. 1145. 
Lolium temulentum, Lin. S. P. 122. 
Lolium annuum. Lamarck FI. Franc. 
Craclialia temulenta, Schrank FI. Bat. 255. 
Bromus temulentus, Bern. Erfurd. 49. 
Bearded darnel. 
Corn-fields and among flax ; annual * June. 
Culm erect, 2 feet high, very bald below, but rough 
above ; leaves rough ; ligula very short, blunt, crenulate ; 
spike erect, large; fachis rough; flowrets many, awned a 
little below the tip ; awn twice as long as the flowret. 
Seeds ground with bread-corn produce headach and 
vertigo, if the bread is eaten hot; malted with barley, and 
made into malt-liquor it renders the liquor very intoxica- 
tive : if eaten by itself, or with but a little wheat-flour, it is 
even deleterioiis. 
3. Lolium arvense. Corn darneh 
Spikes mostly awnless; locustce and glumes of equal length; 
root annual. 
Lolium arvense, With. 1G8. 
Lolium temulenium, Huds. Fl.Ang. 55. 
Lolium annuum, Bern. Erford. 1801. 
White darnel. 
Fields; annual; July. 
Culm and rachis entirely bald ; leaves bald, but some- 
times rough at top 5 glume mostly of one spathelle, some- 
times of two ; locustce rather longer than the glume ; flowret 
apparently awnless ; awns extremely short. 
VIII. 49. AGROPYRUM. Gaertner. Wheat grass. 
Locustce sessile or with short footstalks; glume 3 to 
9 -flowered, acute, not notched, opposite, shorter than the 
flowret ; lower spathellule not notched, sometimes toothed ; 
bristled ; bristles sometimes very short or none 5 upper spa - 
thelbde nicked or 2 -cut, toothed ; lodicule ovate, not nicked* 
hairy; ovary smooth; stigmata feathered ; cariopsis husked, 
furrowed. — Rachis jointed, toothed, spiked; spike compound* 
1 . Agropyrum junceum. Rush wheat grass. 
Glume mostly 9 -ribbed, blunt, 4 or 5-flowered ; flowret 
awnless ; rachis smooth ; root creeping. 
