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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Bromus. 
meadows. Sir J. Banks. Near Battersea. Curtis. Sunderland Ballast 
Hills. Mr. Winch. E.) A. May—June* 
B. as'per. (Panicle drooping, branched; florets lanceolate, roundish, 
almost nerveless, about eight, compressed, downy; awns shorter 
than the glumes; lower leaves hirsute. E.) 
Curt. 105— (E. Bot. 1172. E.)—H. Ox. viii. 7. 27. 
(Stem upright, four to six feet high, leafy. Panicle a foot long, spreading. 
E.) Panicle branches bearing from one to three spikets, very rough, 
thickest upwards, pointing one way. Spikets from six to ten flowered, 
long, slender, nearly cylindrical. Calyx larger valve ribbed; smaller 
keeled. Blossom larger valve ribbed towards the end only. Awn one 
third the length of the blossom. (Smith remarks that if the dorsal awn 
and fringed inner husk be duly attended to, this can never be confounded 
with Festuca gigantea. 
Hairy Wood Brome Grass. Welsh: Pawr-wellt blewog. E.) B. ra- 
mosus. Huds. Ed. 1. B. nemoralis. Ed. ii. B. hirsutus. Curt. B. syl- 
vaticus. Vogler. B. altissimus. Wiggers. B. montanus. Pollich. Woods 
and hedges, frequent. A. (or B. FI. Brit.) June—Aug. 
B. ster'ilis. (Panicle spreading; spikets oblong; florets two-rowed; 
about seven; calyx taper-pointed. Awns longer than the glumes. 
Leaves downy. E.) 
Curt.— (E. Bot. 1030 E.)— IT. Ox. viii. 7. 11 —Leers 11. 4— Mont. 1 —Dod. 
540.2— Lob. Obs. 20. 1— Ger. Em. 76. 1— Park. 1148. 1— Ger. 60.1— C. 
B. Th. 146— Matth. 1205— J. B. ii. 439. 2— Scheuch. 5. 14. 
(Stem eighteen inches to two feet high, leafy, slender, sometimes taking 
root from the lower joints. Panicle a span long, narrow, drooping. FI. 
Brit. E.) Leaves ribbed, hairy, not very harsh. Panicle branches from 
four to six issuing from the same point; very long, rarely subdivided. 
Spikets H at, broader upwards. Calyx six or seven-flowered, smaller valve 
keeled, larger ribbed, tapering to a point but not awned. Blossom larger 
valve ribbed, very rough, not hairy. Awns much longer than the blossom. 
(Curtis observes, that in this species and B. dianclrus the styles grow la¬ 
terally out of the germen. Stamens three, by which it is distinguished 
with certainty from B. diandrus. E. Bot. E.) 
Barren Brome Grass. Welsh: Pawr-wellt anhiliawg. E.) Woods, 
hedge sides, and on walls, frequent, (chiefly in the shade. Sinclair. E.) 
A. June—July.t 
B. arven^sis. Panicle drooping: spikets egg-oblong; (florets about 
eight, smoothish, with two close ribs at each side ; leaves hairy. 
Sm. 
*(By accurate experiments it appears that this grass will bear cutting three or four 
times in the course of a season, w hich should be done before the flowering heads prevail, 
they being harsh and unfit for fodder. The blade is extremely tender, its taste sweetish 
and somewhat aromatic. Geese prefer it to all other grass. Cows eat it readily. If 
sown in the summer it will yield an abundant crop in the ensuing spring, when pasturage 
is most wanted. The rapidity of its growth is surprising. Mr. Sinclair augurs a much 
less favourable result than the above remarks would warrant. E.) 
(The long sharp awns must prevent cattle from eating it, and it seems in no respect 
worthy of cultivation ; lienee, probably, its trivial name. E.) 
