A systematic arrangement of British plants / by W. Withering ; corrected and condensed ; preceded by instructions adapted for persons commencing the study of botany ; accompanied with figures by William MacGillivray.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A systematic arrangement of British plants / by W. Withering ; corrected and condensed ; preceded by instructions adapted for persons commencing the study of botany ; accompanied with figures by William MacGillivray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Straw a foot high, smooth, striated: spikelets few, large, tumid, with from eight to fifteen flowers. Annual: flowers in July: grows in corn-fields in England: rare, and probably introduced among corn. Eng. Bot. vol. xxvii. pl. 1885. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 155. 189. 6. B. arvénsis. Taper Field Brome-grass. Panicle drooping, spreading, compound with half-whorled branches ; spikelets lance- shaped, acute; flowers about eight, imbricated, smoothish, about as long as the straight awn; leaves hairy. Straw about three feet high, erect, smooth: leaves rough on the edges: panicle very large, with harsh, spreading branches. Annual: flowers in July: grows in corn-fields: rare, and probably introduced. Lng. Bot. vol. xxviii. pl. 1984. ng. Fl. vol. i. p. 156. 190. 7. B. eréctus. Upright Perennial Brome-grass. Panicle erect, slightly branched; spikelets narrow lance-shaped, compressed ; flowers about eight, loosely imbricated, lance-shaped, compressed ; awn straight, shorter than the husks; root-leaves very narrow, fringed with scattered hairs. Straws from two to three feet high. Perennial: flowers in July: grows in fields and by road- sides: not common. Lng. Bot. vol. vi. pl. 471. Eng. Fi. vol. i. p. 157. ou. 8. B. dsper. Hairy Wood Brome-grass. Panicle branched, drooping; spikelets narrow-oblong; flowers about eight, lance- shaped, compressed, downy ; awns shorter than the husks ; leaves uniform, the lower ones hairy.——-Straw erect, from four to six feet high: leaves lance-shaped, pointed, ribbed, fringed at the edges. Annual: flowers in July and August: grows in woods and hedges: common. Lng. Bot. vol. xvii. pl. 1172. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 158. 192. 9. B. stérilis. Barren Brome-grass. Panicle nearly simple, drooping ; spikelets narrow, lance-shaped; flowers about seven, lance-shaped, compressed, furrowed; awns longer than the husks ; leaves downy. Straws about two feet high: leaves linear, soft and downy, fringed at the edges. Annual: flowers in June and July: grows in hedges and by road-sides: common. Lng. Bot. vol. xv. pl. 1080. Eng. Fl. vol. i: p. 159. 193. 10. B. didndrus. Upright Annual Brome-grass. Panicle erect, somewhat spreading ; flowers lance-shaped, with only two sta- mens. Straws about a foot high, erect, stiff, slender, smooth. © Annual: flowers in June and July: grows in sandy and gravelly soil: rare. Eng. Bot. vol. xiv. pl. 1006. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 160. 194. 11. B. maximus. Great Brome-grass. Panicle erect, loose, at length spreading ; spikelets lanceolate, downy ; awns two or three times as long as the husks; leaves downy on both sides.——An- nual: flowers in June and July: found by Messrs. Babington and Christy on the sands of St. Aubin’s Bay; Jersey. Eng. Bot. Suppl. pl. 2820. Brit. Fl. 4th ed. p. 47. 195. 38. LAGU’/RUS. HaArz’s-TAIL-GRASS. Calyx one-flowered, of two long, slender, membranous chaff- scales, fringed, as well as their terminal awn, with numerous soft hairs. Corolla of two unequal husks; the outer longest, egg-shaped, terminating in two equal erect awns, shorter than the calyx, and bearing a much longer awn from the middle of its back, twisted in its lower part, straight in the upper; inner husk smaller, involute, cleft, awnless. Nectary deeply-cleft,