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28. Bri’za Linn. Quaking-grass. (Tab. VII. f. 25.) 
Panicle lax. Spikelets much compressed, ovate or deltoid, 
with 3 — 8 closely imbricate florets. Glumes 2, nearly equal, 
broad, much shorter than the spikelet. Glumellas 2, awnless : 
outer cymbiform, obtuse, at length cartilaginous and convex 
on the back below, with a scarious margin ; inner small and 
flat. Caryopsis included within the glumellas. — Name: 
some kind of corn; probably from PpiOu, to droop or bend 
doum, in allusion to the spikelets, which are most delicately sus- 
pended. 
1. B. media L. ( common Q.) ; spikelets broadly ovate of 
about 7 florets, glumes shorter than the lowermost florets, 
ligule truncate or obtuse usually very short. E. B. t. 340 : 
Parn. Gr. t. 30. 
Meadows and pastures, frequent. It. 6. — Whole plant very 
elegant. Culms slender, I ft. or more high. Leaves short, linear- 
acuminate. Branches of the panicle filiform, divaricating, purple. 
Spikelets very smooth, shining, purple, more or less green or greenish- 
white at the edges. Glumes very concave, subcompressed. Outer 
glumella resembling the glumes, slightly gibbous at the back, but 
less so than in the next species. 
2. B. minor L. ( small Q .) ; spikelets triangular about 7- 
flowered, glumes longer than the florets, ligule elongate lan- 
ceolate acute. E- B. t. 1316 : Parn. Gr. t. 101. 
Fields in the extreme south of England, very rare. About Bath 
and in Cornwall. Guernsey and Jersey. Q. 7. — Whole plant 
much smaller than the last. 
29. Dactylis Linn. Cock’s-foot-grass. (Tab. VII. f. 26.) 
Panicle with the secondary branches short and very dense, 
subsecund. Spikelets with 3 or more florets, compressed, with- 
out a bractea at the base. Glumes 2, unequal, shorter than the 
spikelet ; lower one keeled. Glumellas 2 ; outer one keeled, and 
ciliate at the back, 5-nerved, lanceolate, with a short bristle 
close to the point, inclosing the caryopsis. — Except in habit, 
this genus is scarcely distinguishable from Poa, Koeleria, and 
Festuca. — Name: SuktuXoc, a finger; from a fancied resem- 
blance in the division of the panicle. 
1. D. glomerdta L. ( rough C.) ; branches of the panicle 
with ovate clusters of spikelets, leaves linear flat the margins 
scabrous, stem erect, root tufted. E. B. t. 335 : Parn. Gr. 
t. 29. 
Way-sides, meadows, and woods ; abundant. If. . 6, 7. — Culm 
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