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BROMUS afper.
Hairy Wood Brome-grafs.
T R IA N D R IA Digynia.
G en, C har. Cal. o f a valves. Spikelet oblong, %-
ranked. Awn from below the top. Inner hujk
fringed.
Spec. C har. Panicle drooping, branched. Florets
lanceolate, almoft cylindrical, but flightly ribbed.
Leaves uniform : the lower ones hairy.
S y n . Bromus afper. Linn. Suppl. h i . Sm. FI.
Brit. 133. T r .o f Linn. Soc.v. 4.2 9 3 . With. 161.
Hull. 25. Relb. 40. Mart. Ruß. t. 126.
B. nemoralis. Hudf. 51.
B. hirfutus, Curt. Lond. fafc. 1. t. 8. Sibtb. 48.
Abbot. 23.
Gramen avenaceum dumetoi 1111, paniculä fparsä.
Rail Syn. 413.
T h i s g ig a n t ic g ra fs o fte n appears in m o id w o o d s and
h ed g e s a b o u t J u ly and A u g u f t , e x te n d in g its w id e - fp re ad in g
d ro o p in g p a n ic le o v e r th e to p s o f fe rn s and b u llie s , b e in g
o ften 6 fe e t in h e ig h t , •
T h e ro o t is an n u a l o r b ie n n ia l, c o n f id in g o f m a n y ft ro n g
p a le fib re s , n o t c r e e p in g . S tem e r e c t , ro u n d , le a fy , fm o o th
in th e u p p e r p a r t. L e a v e s fp r e a d in g , b ro a d , o f a fu ll g re en ,
fla t, r ib b e d , ro u g h , and a lfo c lo th e d w ith lo n g fp re a d in g
h a ir s . T h e y a re a ll n e a r ly o f eq u a l b re ad th , in w h ic h re fp e c t
added to m a n y o th er s th is differs from B. erectus, t. 4 7 1 . T h e
fh e a th s are c y lin d r ic a l, v e r y ro u g h w ith d eflexed h a ir s . S p ik e -
le ts lin e a r -o b lo n g , p e n d u lo u s , o ften b row n ifh , a lit t le d ow n y .
C a ly x - g lum e s v e r y u n e q u a l. F lo re ts a b o u t 9 , im b r ic a te d , at
le n g th lo o fe ly fp r e a d in g , la n c e o la te , fom ew h a t c y lin d r ic a l,
o b fc u r e ly 3 - r ib b e d , ro u g h e d o n th e k e e l . A w n ro u g h , from
b e lo w th e to p , and fh o r te r th a n th e h u fk . In n e r h u lk c lo fe ly
f r in g e d , its m em b ran o u s edg es b e n t in . A n th e r a e fa ffron -
c o lo u r e d .
I f th e d o r fa l aw n and fr in g ed in n e r h u fk b e d u ly a ttended
to , th is c a n n e v e r m o re b e co n fo u n d ed w ith FeJluca gigantea,