TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Bromus. 
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Two to three feet high. Distinguished by its rather large,, but slender, at 
length drooping panicle, and spikets which have mostly a purplish tinge. 
Hook. E.) 
Var 1 . Aristatus . Awned. 
(E. Bot. 1984. E.)— Leers 11. 3. 
I have a specimen with awns of some length. Woodw. 
Var 2. Mutica. Awnless. 
(E. Bot. 920. E.)— FI. Dan. 293. 
Straw five inches high. Root-leaves awl-shaped, smooth, channelled, stiff. 
Panicle close, consisting of eight or ten spikets. Spikets almost sessile, 
and growing on one side of the stalk; smooth, awnless, consisting of five 
florets. The above differences possibly occasioned by sea water, and 
poverty of soil. Lightf. 
Taper Field Brome Grass. In corn-fields rare. (Coast of Durham. Mr. 
Knapp, in Eng. FI. Scotland. Hooker. E.) Near Southampton. Sherard. 
Var. 2 . Shores of the Isle of Oransay. Lightfoot. A. July. 
The FI. Lapp, and Seuc. certainly contain under B. arvensis the synonyms 
of different plants. Lightfoot by his reference to FI. Dan. has demon¬ 
strated the existence of that var. with us ; but the plant of Scheuchzer, 
referred to in Sp. PI. is not yet fully established as a native. B. arvensis 
of Leers differs somewhat from that of Scheuchzer; but hardly enough 
to cause it to be considered distinct. (Ehrhart has distinguished the 
above varieties as two species ; the first Smith allows to be the real B. ar¬ 
vensis, the latter one he considers B. pratensis of the German Botanists. E.) 
B. sylvat'icus. Spike simple, drooping, one-rowed; spikelets sessile, 
roundish ; awns longer than the glumes; leaves hairy. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 129 — FI. Dan. 164 —Leers 10 3— Weig. 1. 11. 
Two feet high. Root fibrous. Leaves fringed with long white hairs. Straw 
slender, joints woolly. Spike-stalks slender, often drooping. Spikes, calyx, 
and blossom more hairy than those of B. pinnatus. The straight hairs of 
the leaves disappear by cultivation. It has the habit of a Bromus, but 
the seed being unconnected with the glumes which enfold it, has induced 
some authors to associate it with the Festucoe. 
Slender Wood Brome Grass. B. sylvaticus. Poll. Sm. FI. Brit. Hull. 
Hook. Host. B. gracilis. Weig. Roth. Willd. Festuca sylvatica. Huds. 
Lightf. With, to Ed. 7. Dicks. Sm. Eng. FI. F. pinnatu (3. Huds. Ed. 
2 . Dry copses and hedges, not uncommon. P. July. E.)* 
(B. pinnatus. Straw undivided; spike two-rowed; spikets alternate, 
nearly sessile, cylindrical, somewhat awned ; awns shorter than 
the glumes ; leaves nearly smooth. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 130—Leers 10. 3. 
Spikets with the flat sides turned towards the straw. Awns terminal. 
Leaves flat. Linn. ( Plant smooth. Spike four or five inches long ; spikets 
eight to ten; calyx eight, ten, or twelve-flowered. Blossom outer valve 
with five or seven ribs, terminating in an awn, rather hairy at the edge; 
inner doubled down at the edge with a ciliated rib along each side. Root 
scaly. Whole plant more rigid, and less hairy than B. sylvatica. E.) 
* (Cattle refuse this grass. It is very subject to be affected with the Rust when 
flowering. Hort. Gram. E.) 
