Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.

Date:: 1881

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$spread and the spikelets droop. Top of upper gl. \-way hetxoem its base and the top of fourth/I. (second on tlie same side). Lower pale not twice as U)ng as broad, longer than the upper, Z-ribbed. —/3. Bromus velutirius (Sm.); pan. nearly simple, fl. larger downy. F. 123.—Corn-tields. A. VI. VII. E. S. ** Fl. closely imbricate even with fruit. 2. S. racemosus (Pari.) ; pan. long erect nsuaUy simple, spike- lets ovate ratlier compressed glossy, fi. imbricate about as long as the straight awn, lower pale unifonnhj rounded at the sides, I. and sheaths shghtly hairy.—F. ]}. 1079.—Top of the upper glume ^-icay to the top of the foiirth flower. Lower pale longer than the upper. Anth. 4 times as long as broad. Pan. close with fruit.—Common. B. VI. E. I. 3. S. commutdtns (Bab.) ; pan. loose slightly drooping com- pound, simple peduncles as long as or longer than the oblong- lanceolate spikelets, 11. loose imbricate about as long as the straight awn, sides ofloiuerpale bluntly anyular above the middle, Land sheaths hairy.—P. 124. F. F. 920.—Lower pale only slightly overlapping the next fl. at the base when in fruit. Top of upper yl. h-way to top of fourth Jl. Lower pale twice as long as broad, longer than the upper, glabrous or downy, 7-ribbed. Anth. G times as long as broad.—j3. multi/lorus (Parn.) ; more numerous fl., top of upper gl. rather higher. F. 125.—Common. B. VI. VII. E. S. L 4. S. mol'lis (Pari.); pan. close erect compound or rarely simple, .spikelets ovate rather compressed pubescent, fl. closely imbricate about as long as the straight awn, sides of loioer pale blunthi angular about the middle, 1. and sheaths hairy or downy.— F. B. 1078. F. 110.—Top of the upper gl. ^i-xoay to the tup of the si.vth flower; or a little higher (ovalis Parn. 117, with short oval spikelets); or about ^-way to the top of the eighth (pratensis Parn. i 18, with longer spikcdets). Lower p;ile longer than the u])per. Simple ped. not longer than the spikelets. Anth. about thric(! as long as broad. Rarely the sjiicules an; glabrous, when it is li. racemosus Parn. 119.—A maritime plant with nearly or quite pr(J8ti-ate st., nearly siinjile pan., and nearly glabrous pales, .seems to be the F. hordeiiceus (Fries). Another •with very short ped. and densely downy spikelets is also found near the sea.—Common. A. ? V. VI. Fop-yrass. E. S. I. *'). S. arvcn'sk (Godr.); pan. spreading compoimd its branches ultimately horizontal, spikelets linear-lanceolate, pales equal in length lower 7-ribbed with two prominent ribs near each margin$