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nus for this plant. Hooker, on the authority of Don, reports it to have 
been found in several parts of Scotland, though himself almost incredu¬ 
lous. E.) 
B. erec'tus. Panicle upright, terminating abruptly; spikets oblong, 
hairy, awned, about eight florets in each ; straws straight; leaves 
hard, (fringed with scattered hairs. E.) 
(Dicks. H. S.—Hort. Gram.—E.Bot . 471.— Vaill. 18.2. E.)—■ Scheuch . 5.13. 
(Stem two to three feet high. Panicle purplish. Nectary cloven, tumid at 
the base. E.) A wns a continuation of the keel of the blossom, thus form¬ 
ing the connecting link between this genus and Festuca. Woodw. Pa¬ 
nicle branches each supporting a single spiket. Spikets slender, five to 
seven-flowered. Calyx somewhat hairy, ribbed, keeled, slender pointed, 
but not awned. Blossom hairy, outer valve ribbed and keeled. Aivn 
shorter than the blossom. Anthers deep saffron colour. 
(Upright Perennial Brome Grass. Welsh : Pawr-wellt uniawnsyth. 
E.) Corn fields. Holkham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Near Darent Wood, 
Dartford. Rev. Dr. Goodenough. FI. Brit. About Dorking, Surry. Mr. 
Winch. Between Llangoed church and Tros y Marian, Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. King’s Park, below Salisbury Craigs, Edinburgh. Hooker. 
E.) Ditchley Park. Mr. Woodward. In pasture ground near Short 
Wood, Pucklechurch. Mr. Swayne. 
Var. 2. Smooth. Spikets smooth, from five to eight-flowered; awns straight, 
short: lower part of the panicle drooping. 
B. arvensis. Huds. not of Linn. In Ditchley Park intermixed with the 
former; also at Earsham, near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. P. July.* 
(B. dian'drus. Panicle diffuse, upright but open ; spikets strap-shaped, 
the middlemost in pairs; pedicles thickest at the top; (florets 
spear-shaped, striated, with only two stamens. 
Curt.—E. Bot. 1006— H. Ox. viii. 7. 13. E .)—Barr. 76. 1. 
Straws two feet high, smooth, joints swollen. Leaves rather broad, soft. 
Panicle loose, with few spikets. Spikets straight, nearly upright, in 
threes, each of which generally on a fruit-stalk, and sometimes a fourth, 
with mostly two on a fruit-stalk. Awns long, upright. Linn. Panicle 
not branched. Calyx keeled, hairy, of ten florets. Blossom ribbed, hairy. 
Awns shorter than the blossom. (It stoles excessively at the root. Mr. 
Watt. This species is readily distinguished by the diandrous florets, 
which were particularly observed by the author to be invariable in Por¬ 
tugal. E.) 
Upright Annual Brome Grass. Wall Brome Grass. B. muralis. 
Huds. Sibth. (B. madritensis. Linn. With, to Ed. 5. Willd. B. dian- 
drus. Curt. With. Ed. 6. Sm. Hook. Grev. Sine. E.) On old walls 
about London and Oxford. Huds. Severn Stoke, Worcestershire. Stokes. 
At the foot of St. Vincent’s Rock, Bristol, on the farther part near the 
* A coarse grass, disliked by cattle, as are all the Bromes. Properly a Fescue , but 
has the habit of a Brome. Mr. S wayne. (Mr. Sinclair suspects it may possibly be useful 
on chalky soils, but admits that it is little adapted for the best pasture land. He states 
that pheasants appear very fond of the seeds; which, however, are produced but 
sparingly. E.) 
