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5. F. panicle with branches on one side, nodding, nutans, 
scabrous ; spikelets ovate, compressed, generally 
6'flovvered ; flowers acute, unawned j leaves li- 
near-lanceolate. Willd. 
Nodding- Fescue- grass* 
Two or three feet high. In woods common. Perennial* 
June* 
6* F. culm triquetrous, or semi-terete, jointed, joints brevifoiia; 
pubescent or hairy above, cespitose. Leaves short, 
distichal, lanceolate, striate, convolute at the apex. 
Sheath long striate. Panicle terminal flexuose, 
and concealed at the base. CaL 2-valved, valves 
lanceolate neartv equal awnless, carinated, one 
serrated at the apex* Cor. white 2-valved ? hairy, 
one 3-nerved sub-bifid, the other hairy at the 
apex* Siam* 3. Fist. 2, blackish plumous. Seed 
oblong naked. Root long very slender. Muhl* 
Short leaved Fescue-grass. 
Grows in and near water ; in Jersey not uncommon. Pe* 
rennial* July. 
60. BromuSj Gen. pi. 120. fGraminece.J 
Calix 2-valved, many-flowered. Spikelets ob-> 
long, distichal. Outer vaives of the corolla 
often bifid at the point, and awned below the 
summit ; interior glume pectinately ciliate. 
Nutt. 
1. B. panicle nodding ; spikelets ovate, compressed ; secaiinus. 
glumes naked, distinct ; awns subulate, short, 
straight. Sp. pi. 
Icon. Host. gram. 1. 1. 12. (Purso) 
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