fimple, fiftular and jointed: Calyx> a 
hufk of two valves : Corolla* if it may 
be fo called, a dry, fkinny hufk, alfo of 
two valves: Stamina three: Piftilla two. 
Seeds, fmgle, pointed at each end: 
Leaves, one at each joint, entire, nar- 
row, tapering to a point. But thefe 
characters are not invariable, as you 
will fee in this fpecimen in my hand, 
which when I tell you its generic 
name, you will recollect is mentioned 
by Virgil more than once. It is the 
Lolium temulentum* fo called by Lin- 
naeus from the inebriating quality of 
its feed when malted with barley brew- 
ed. 
In the Georgics you remember 
~ inter -que nitmtia culta 
Infellx Lolium, etfteriles dominatur aventz. 
And, in the 5th Eclogue, he repeats the 
laft line verbatim. Whether he meant this 
particular fpecies I know not. It is called, 
in Englifh, White Darnel. If you examine 
it minutely you will find, that it differs 
from the general character of Grafles, in its 
calyx being a hufk or glume, of one leaf. 
The fpecific character of this Darnel is : 
Culm 
