112 58. Triodia. 10. GRAMlNEiE. Pl.end.pk. 
Gramen avenaceura parvum procnmbens, paniculis con aristatis, Raii 
Syn. 408, 1 1. 
Festuea decumbens, Lin. S. P. 110. 
Poa decumbens, With. Bat. Arr. 147. 
Bromus decumbens, Koel. Gram. 242. 
Melica decumbens, Salisb . Prod . 20. 
Meiic t rigida, Web. Werth. 117. 
Sieglingia decumbens, Bern. Erf. 44. 
Danthonia decumbens, De Cand. FI. Fr. 1543. 
Triodia decumbens, Pal. de Beauv. 
Mountainous fields and pastures; perennial; June. 
Root fibrous, rather creeping; culm ascending, becoming 
upright, 9 in. high, smooth, bald; ligula very short, longly 
ciliated ; racemus oblong ; locustce swelled, green, grey, 
and purple. 
XVIII. 59. BR ACHYPQDIUM. Beauvois. Shortfoot . 
Spathelles parallel, 3 to 15-flowered, shorter than the 
flowrets ; glumelles not notched ; apex of the lower spa- 
thelluie ending in a bristle ; upt>er spathellule obtuse, trun- 
cated, scarcely nicked, generally edged with stiff hair; Zo- 
dicule ovate, not nicked, pilose; ovary obtuse ; stigmata fea- 
thered ; cariopsis slightly husked, furrowed ; rachis jointed, 
spiked; spike notbranched ; locustce hermaphrodite, 2-rowed, 
alternate. 
a. Locustce footstalked ; footstalk broad , thick. 
1. Br achy podium pinna turn. Featherlike shortfoot. 
Spike upright, 2-rowed; locustce rather distant, becoming 
spread, pubescent, bristled ; bristle shorter than the glu- 
melle; spathellules blunt; leaves and sheath rather naked; 
root creeping. 
Gramen spica brizce majus, Raii Syn. 392. 
Bromus pinnatus, Lin. S. P. 1 15. 
Festuea pinnata, Hnds. FI. ring. 48. 
Avena laeta, Salisb. Prod. 22. 
Tritieum pinnatum, Moench Enum. 102. 
Triticum bromoides, Web. Wirtli. 104. 
Chalky fields and heaths; perennial; July. 
Culm 2 feet high, jointed, slightly villose; leaves flat, 
rather stiff ; sheaths smooth ; spathelles acute ; lower 5-rib- 
bed ; spathellules blunt. 
0. brevius. Bristle as long as the glume. 
y. pubescens. Locustce pubescent. 
