I f JS49.
2955.
LOLI UM linicola.
S le n d e r A n n u a l D a r n e l.
TRIANDRIA Digynia.
Gen. Char. S p ik e le ts solitary, many-flowered, sessile,
cpntrary to the excavated rachis. Upper g l u m e
wanting or minute.
Spec. Char. Spikelets longer than the glume. Flowers
elliptic. Roots annual, destitute of sterile shoots.
Syn. Lolium linicola. S o n d e r .” K o c h S y n o p s . e d .
2. 957. B a b . M a n . e d . 2. 401. H o o k e r L o n d .
J o u r n . B o t. v . 7. 528.
L. arvense. H o s t G r a m . A u s t r . v . 3 . 17. t. 25.
S c h r a d . F I. G e r m . v . 1. 399. M e r t. e t K o c h
D e u t. F I. v . 1. 715. R e ic h . Ic o n . B o t. v . 5.
(■A g r o s t . G e r m .) t. 4. f f . 1337-1339 (excluding
everywhere the syn. of Withering and Smith).
(jT A TH E R E D in July 1848, at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex,
where it was first observed in the summer of 1844, erowine
sparingly amongst various crops, flowering in June. It is
also recorded by Mr. Babington as found near Catterick,
Yorkshire, by Mr. Ward.
Plant annual. Roots fibrous, producing no barren shoots.
Stems solitary, or several together from the same point,
branched below, erect or bent at the lower joints. Leaves glabrous,
their sheath slightly scabrous; ligule short, truncate.
Culm slightly scabrous with minute aculei pointing downwards.
Rachis scabrous in the upper part. Glume about one-third
shorter than the spikelet. Spikelets of from 3-12 flowers, most
commonly about 6, distant from each other by about one-
third of their length. Outer palea elliptic, with 5 green nerves,