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10. GRAMINEiE. 55. Briza. 
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XIV. 55. BRIZA. Greeks. Cowquake. 
Spatlielles alternate, boatshaped, compressed, cordate at 
bottom, rather eared, 3 to 12-flowered; flowrets 2- rowed, 
imbricate; glumelles awnless; lower spathellute cordate at 
bottom; upper almost orbicular, very short; lodicule ovate, 
lanceolate, not notched, smooth; style 2-parted ; stigmata 
aspergilliform : ovary hemispherical, 2-beaked ; coreopsis 
free, 2-beaked ; beaks filiform, short ; panicle com- 
pound; peduncles pendulous, very slender ; flowrets herma- 
phrodite. 
1. Briza minor . Small cowquake . 
Panicle erect, base involuted in the upper leaves; pe- 
duncles rough; locustce greenish, 3-angular, 5 to 7 -flowered; 
glumes larger than the flowrets ; ligula long, lanceolate. 
Gramen tremulum minus, panicula ampla, locustis parvis triaugulis, 
Raii Syn. 412, 2. 
Briza minor, Lin. S. P. 102. 
Briza aspera, Knapp. 61. 
Fields; annual; July. 
Root fibrous; culm erect, 9 in. high, round; base often 
branched; leaves erect, acute, flat, light green; sheaths smooth; 
ligula stem-clasping; pan ic le diffused ; peduncles green ; lo- 
custce very numerous, green and white. 
2. Briza media. Middling cowquake . 
Panicle erect, base naked ; peduncles smoothish ; locustce 
coloured, ovate becoming cordate, 7-flowered; glumes 
shorter than the flowrets ; ligula very short, obtuse. 
Gramen tremulum, Raii Syn. 412 , 1. 
Phalaris pratensis, Ger. em. 86. 
Briza media, Lin. S. P. 103. 
Quaking grass. Lady’s hair . Shaker. 
Fields and pastures; annual; May and June. 
Root fibrous; culm erect, 1 foot high, naked above; 
leaves erect, acute, flat ; sheaths very long ; ligula obtuse ; 
panicle diffused; peduncles brown; locustce 10 to 30, ovate, 
smooth, white and brown. 
(3. virens . Ijocustce green, small ; panicle contracted. 
3. Briza maxima. Large cowquake . 
Panicle ramose, drooping; base naked; Locustce oblong, 
cordate; 15 to 1 7-flowered ; ligula; long, acute. 
