TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Bromus. 
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E. Bot. 1884— Scheuch. 5. 9 . 
B. multiflorus. FI. Cantab. Sm. FI. Brit. With. Ed. 6. B. velutinus. 
Schrad. Sm. Eng. FI. Hook. Grev. though, unfortunately, the latter 
two accurate observers have not been able to trace this plant in the vici¬ 
nity of Edinburgh, or elsewhere. In corn-fields, rare. Between Edin¬ 
burgh and New Haven. Near Norwich. FI. Brit. Paradise, near Cam¬ 
bridge, and Audrey Causeway. Relhan. (Near Sexton, Durham. W. 
Backhouse, jun. At Norwood, near Ravensworth, Durham. Winch 
Guide. 
Smooth Rye Brome Grass. (Welsh: Pawr-wellt Ller. E.) B. polymor- 
phus var. 2. secalinus. With. Ed. 4. E.) In corn-fields. Near Edswin- 
ford, Carmarthenshire, among the winter corn. Sir J. Banks. In a mea¬ 
dow below Cook's Folly, near Bristol. Sir T. Frankland. In Norfolk 
not rare. Rev. Mr. Bryant. On the sea coast at Ryde, in the Isle of 
Wight. Very troublesome amongst wheat in Norfolk, where it is called 
Drank. Mr. Woodward. (In corn-fields near Sunderland. Winch Guide. 
Among winter corn, in Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) A. May—July. E.) 
(B. moi/lis. Panicle upright, compact ; fruit-stalks branched, spikets 
egg-shaped; florets tiled, depressed, striated, pubescent. FI. Brit, 
awns as long as the glumes: leaves and sheaths very soft and 
downy. 
E. Bot. 1078. E.)— Schreh. 6.1. 2— Hort. Gram.—Leers 11.1— Scheuch. 5. 12 
— H. Ox. viii. 7. 18— Weig. 1. 4— Curt.fasc. 1. t. 8. 
Straw upright, two feet high, undivided, cylindrical, striated, often smooth, 
afterwards woolly. Joints swollen, sometimes hairy. Leaves (and sheath 
likewise), striated, woolly with soft hairs, scarcely rough at the edge. 
Sheath-scale rather sharp-pointed, torn. Panicle two or three inches long, 
expanding with age, doubly compound, Spikets rather upright, sharp- 
pointed, a little compressed. Florets five to ten. Calyx of two husks, 
unequal, elliptical, notched at the end, membranous at the edges, keeled, 
hairy, with seven or nine strongly marked, green scores. Florets like the 
calyx, concave, with rough awns the length of the valves; inner husks 
very thin, and much narrower, not striated, thicker at the edges, green, 
fringed. Seed oval, flattened. FI. Brit. 
Nothing can be more distinct than this common Bromus from the pre¬ 
ceding. Its compound dense panicle, and its strongly ribbed, de¬ 
pressed, closely imbricated glumes, at once distinguish it. Few plants 
vary more as to luxuriance. Sm. in Linn. Tr. 
B. polymorphus var. 1. mollis. With. Ed. 4. where the author observes, 
we have two sorts of this soft and hairy Bromus; in the one the panicle 
branches are downy, supporting one or two, but rarely three spikets, the 
spikets have each ten or twelve florets ; the calyx larger valve has a 
short awn, and both the calyx and blossom are hairy and strongly ribbed. 
In the other, the panicle branches are rough, not downy, supporting but 
one, rarely two spikets, the spikets have each six or eight florets, the 
calyx larger valve is scarcely awned, the calyx is ribbed and hairy, but 
the blossom smooth. This is the kind expressed by most of the figures. 
The former is mostly found growing in corn-fields, though sometimes in 
mowing grass : the latter in meadows, pastures, hedge banks, and even 
on walls. 
