. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 51 Bromus wilMenmrii Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 : 134. 1835. Cenilorhlua mbmutica Stend. (?) Syn. PI. dram. 321. (Fig. 30.) A rather stout annual, with erect or suberect panicle and strongly compressed oblong- lanceolate spikelets. Culms glabrous, ab uit 5-10 dm. high. Sheaths usually pilose-pubescent, sometimes smooth, typically with a tuft of hairs at the l)ase of the ligule; ligule about 3-4 mm. long, somewhat laciniate on the margin; blades linear, scabrous on both sides or sparingly pilose-pubescent. Panicle it,^ualh/
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 51 Bromus wilMenmrii Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 : 134. 1835. Cenilorhlua mbmutica Stend. (?) Syn. PI. dram. 321. (Fig. 30.) A rather stout annual, with erect or suberect panicle and strongly compressed oblong- lanceolate spikelets. Culms glabrous, ab uit 5-10 dm. high. Sheaths usually pilose-pubescent, sometimes smooth, typically with a tuft of hairs at the l)ase of the ligule; ligule about 3-4 mm. long, somewhat laciniate on the margin; blades linear, scabrous on both sides or sparingly pilose-pubescent. Panicle it,^ualh/ clotigaed <iad narrow pyramidal, dm. long; lower branches 2-4, short in small forms, to rather long, spreading, or somewhat drooping in the larger < )nes. Spikelets cm. long, 5-9 nun. broad, about 7-il-flowered; empty glumes broad, subacute, smooth or slightly scabrous, the lower usually 5-nerved, 7-10 mm. long, the upper usually 7-nerved, 10-13 mm. long; flowering glumes broadly lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, subglabrous to coarsely scabrous, slightly bidentate at the apex, about 13-16 mm. long, usually with a short stout awn, rarely exceeding 2 mm. long; palea beticeen one-half and thrff-finirth.'i the length of it-^ glume. General distribution: .\labamato Califor- nia and southward. Perhaps intro- duced throughout most of our range. Occasionally met with in other South- ern States. Type grown at Berlin from seed sent from Carolina. Specimens ex.\.mixed.—Alabama: Mont- gomery (C. Mohr in 1868); Auburn (Earle & Baker 1502). Loumana: Calhoun (C. K. Ball 76). Texas: San Antonio (A. W. Barr 1873); Riddle- ville (W. S. Rucknmn in 1885). Netv Mexico: (A. Femller 918—an imma- ture plant approachingjB. polyanthus panicalatus). Arizona: Pipe Spring (M. E. Jones 5272i); Tucson (J. W. Toumey 28). California: Kern County (A. B. Leckenby in 1896). Bro)nu.'<catharticusYahl, 1. c, judgingfrom the original description, is but a mere form of this species, an
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