Bromus Diandrus. Diandrous Brome-Grass. 
BROMUS- Linn. Gen. PI. Triandria Digynia. 
Cal. 2-vaIvis. Spicula oblonga, teres, diflicha ; arifla infra apicem. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 27. Herbae graminifolisE flore imperfecto culmifer.-e. 
BROMUS diandrus panicula ereclo-patente, fpiculis multifloris, flofculis diandris. 
BROMUS muralis panicula patulo-erefta fimplici, fpiculis linearibus, floribus acuminatis fcabris, ariflis 
longis. Hudf. FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 50. 
BROMUS madntenjis panicula rariore patulo-erefla ; fpiculis linearibus; intermediis geminis, pedicellis 
fuperne incraflatis. Linn. Syjl. Vcgetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 120. ? 
GRAMEN bromoides, pumilum, locuflis ereflis, majoribus, ariftatis. Scbeuchz. Agr. ed. Hall. p. 260. 
BROMOS Herilis erefta panicula major. Barr. ic. 76. n. 1. 
Church CuLmd the grafs here reprefented, growing on the wall of a garden near Batterfea 
vou turn in fuialldd};! nee from the high-road which leads from the bridge to Batterfea, out of which 
readily be found ■ f'" 8 l ° ‘ de ‘hurch -—a few yards down this turning, on the garden-wall to the right, it will 
Surg' 7 „ GTjRuil%r e / 7 l rp 0 t n, ™ k a S ain tUs P^"t fummtr, in company wither Ocll, 
Sli® Ruffel-Street, Bloomlbury; on the top of the wall it was in a Hunted Hate, at the foot of it 
^e^^^ith^^mrcles^lforteftlitu^ufii 1™^)!“^ f ™ m j Cm I°^ view ’ “ re S ard “ as a varie ‘y of 
culture made P no alteration in its nrifr? ; i b >! h ™ n S r In , tr “ d “ ce , d “ my garden, and found that feveral years 
little I had was rnmnW^l S P riI l CI P a l character, I had little doubt of its being a diftinft fpecies, and the 
7 hen >° diffeS parts of fruBification ; for, to my great 
nnnment, tound that there were only two ftamtna to each flower, and that generally. 7 S 
pe^mTes^^ereb^^hey^ar^rende^d^eakitr^c 5 Handing on long 
fupport the fpiculas in In upright nofitiot c0 ? IlantI f,. d f 00 P 1 >? ‘h e diandrus the peduncles being (hort, 
great fimilarity of its (talks, fEliJL ILe antiform of i,?/- dl f erent a ,'‘ “ the P^nt which otherwife from the 
the Jl'rilis. e - of Jts fpicuhe, would he very liable to be confounded with 
i‘ is much (horter than the plant we have figured; 
fpicuke become of a brownifh purple hue • irfthi th( r P anicIe clofes together, and the 
be diftinguifhed even at a d ftafee? Je - l “ ftllI , n ’°. re obv.oufly from the Lit i'r and mav 
fterilis, it is found on them by accident- we obferveTT^ 1 to , re S ard thls P ,ant as confined to walls; like the 
foot of St. Vincent’s Rock, w’tee % yejlcad «S Dr" Fn* FS i. 1?93 f the of the ^era, « Z 
grow m great plenty. ’ y ° triend, Dr. Ford, then relident at Briftol, alfo oblerved it to 
perhaps of other different parts of Europe : there can be Me dotito/f Z “ “S’™ ° f Spa,n ’ and Italy, and 
though he has omitted to notice the peculiar circumftance of its ha f h?" 8 the „ mu ™‘is of Mr. Hudson, 
unufual m plants of this tribe, that weVve thouvMt on vht , ^ S onl X WO ftamma . a phenomenon fo 
as the plant is found to be confined to no par, ^ ” 0re «5**!$ 
berameTweed^ 7 J ™ e ' “ d npenS itS feeds in J ul f ‘ * an annual of ready growth, and much difpofed to 
ofbloom-gei^ySto^a'^'Sf 0 " 11 » ^ frefll fiamina are “otto be feen, but the flowers out 
AVingh, “delite fljl of, oS” lfh Thunbergi! and 
been obferved, befides theprefent one, and the AmhoxlfZlZ™ S 8ralfe ' "° ne fuch as J-« have 
Paries F ruElificationis. fo ct-u 0 n ~ _ 
X The P *rts of the FruBification. 
Fig. l. Glum® Calycina:. K r - 
| * ! S' 1 - The Glumes of the Calyx. 
Fig. 2. Gluma: Corollacea:. I 
J **£• 2 * The Glumes of the Corolla. 
T ,or ’ Sta - 1 ^f’diinSr 
^. 7 . PtftUhim magis auS. | 7 . The Piflil, urn more enlarged. 
