120 62. Bromus. 10. GRAMINE.ZE. 
PI. end. ph . 
0. nanus. Culm 2 in. high ; panicle fewflowered. 
Bromus nanus, Weigel Obs. 8. 
6. Bromus racemosus. Bunched Irome. 
Panicle upright, diffuse; peduncles not branched, semi- 
verticillate ; locustce ovate, oblong, rather compressed, bald ; 
jlowrets imbricate, depressed ; awn straight, as long as the 
glumelles; leaves scarcely pubescent. 
Festuca avenacea spicis strigosioribus, e guimis glabris compactis, Raii 
Syn. 414,7. 
Festuca avenacea, q. Gramen avenaceum pratense, gluma tenuiore gla- 
bra Bobarti, Raii Syn. 414, 6. 
Bromus racemosus, Lin. S. P. 114. 
Bromus polymorphus /3 et 8, Huds. FI. Angl. 49. 
Fields and pastures ; annual; June. 
Culm slender, smooth; leaves pilose; sheaths hirsute; 
panicle not branched ; peduncles long, not branched ; locustce 
shining, white and green. 
7. Bromus squarrosus. Scurfy hrome . 
Panicle loose, not branched, nearly facing one way, 
drooping at top ; peduncles not branched, in pairs ; locustce 
ovate, lanceolate, rather compressed, very smooth ; jlowrets 
imbricate, depressed; awn becoming divaricated; leaves 
pubescent. 
Bromus squarrosus, Lin. S. P. 112. 
Fields; annual; July. A doubtful native. 
Roots fibrous; culm 18 in. high, upright, smooth; leaves 
and sheaths pubescent ; panicle rather racemose ; locustce 
very large, shining. 
XXII. 63. FESTUCA. Fescue. 
Glume 2 to 15-fiowered; spathelles parallel, nearly equal; 
lower many-ribbed ; glumelles bristled ; lower spathellule 
not notched, ending in a seta shorter than the glumelle ; 
upper 2-cut, toothed ; lodicule ovate, not notched, hairy ; 
stamens 3 ; stigmata villose ; cariopsis mostly husked, fur- 
rowed. — Rachis jointed, panicled ; panicle branchy, facing 
one way ; pedicels inflated, wedgeshape. 
a. Ligula very short , truncated , 2-eared ; leaves all 
Irisllelike ; culm 4- angular . 
1 . Festuca ovina. Sheeps fescue. 
Panicle spreading, becoming contracted; locustce ovate, 
4 or 5-flowered, bristled ; spathellules roundish, smooth at 
bottom, inner margin very smooth ; leaves setaceous, rough. 
