Order GRAMINEZE, 
Genus Bromus, 
Sub-Order Festucace/k. 
Genus XXIV.—BROMUS, Linnaeus. 
Spikelets pedicelled, several-flowered, erect or drooping, panicled. Empty glumes rounded on the back, 
rigid, unawned. Flowering glume rounded on the back, 7-nerved, bifid at the top, and with a straight 
or curved awn between the lobes. Palea 2-nerved, ciliate on the nerves. Scales 2, entire. Stamens 3. 
Ovary narrow, obovate, and crowned on the top with a mass of glutinous hairs. Styles united at the 
base. Grain free, top hairy. Distribution of Genus: TEMPERATE REGIONS OF BOTFI 
HEMISPHERES. Etymology : From the Greek word for food, as applied to oats and other cereal 
grasses. 
1.—B R OMUS AREN Alii US. 
SEA-SIDE BROKE GRASS. 
(Plate LV 1 . A.) 
Bromus arenarius, Labill. PL Nov. Hoik, I., 23, t. 28. 
Bromus australis, R. Brown. Prod. 178. 
Bromus arenarius, Labill. Bentham, FI. Austral., VII., 661. 
Bromus arenarius, Labill. Hook, fib, FI. N.Z., I., 310 
Bromus arenarius, Labill. Hook, fil., Handb. N.Z. FL, I., 341. 
A tufted, densely-villous grass, of littoral habitats. Flowers December—February. Annual. Culms 
3—24 inches high. Leaves flat, villous. Panicle 3—10 inches long, very broad, open, drooping, 
villous, branches slender, 3—5-nate. Spikelets green, f-—1 inch long, on slender pedicels, 5—8-flowered. 
Empty glumes 3—5-nerved, much shorter than the flowering, pubescent or ciliate. Flowering glume 
7-nerved, ciliate, ovate, acuminate, bifid at the top, awn as long as the glume. Palea linear, bifid, 
ciliate on the 2 nerves, with a scale oblique, acute. Ovary narrow, crowned on the top with a mass of 
glutinous hairs. Grain linear, with a hard hairy scale on the top, which generally breaks off. Styles 
united at the base. Distribution of Species: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND. 
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