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2821 L. temulentum L. Darnel.
Syme E. B. xi. t. 1816.
A weed of cultivated ground in Europe, W. and Central Asia, Punjab,
Seinde, Beluchistan, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, N. Africa, Egypt,
Natal, Canaries. Adventive in North America from Ne
Brunswick to Michigan and Georgia, and abundant on the Pacifi
coast. Abundantly native in New South Wales, Victoria, South
Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand.
Annual, stems fasciculate, 2-12 dm., stiff, straight, glabrous, rough ;
spike erect, 5-30 em. long, of about 10-20 wedge-shaped, obtuse
or truncate, 5-9-flowered spikelets ; flowers turgid ; glume some-
what longer, sub-obtuse to acute, very rigid, glabrous, 7-9-nerved ;
awn sub-terminal, straight, up to 18 mm. long.
First record: Many plants in the bed of the Gala, Selk., and as the
var. longiaristatum, A. Brotherston in Proc. Lerw. 137, Veiiee
Galashiels, Selk., I. M. H., 1910, and in succeeding years. Det.
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