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2755 B.
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Adriatic coast, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, F
Macedonia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, N. Africa, Canaries,
Madeira, Isle Bourbon. Adventive in Cape Colony—-common,
and in the Channel Isles, Belgium, Germany, etc., India, Austral-
A very handsome, annual species, 3-5 dm. high, erect ; leaves linear,
acuminate, flat, roughish; panicle unilateral, simple, erect or
slightly nodding ; branches with 1-2 spikelets, which are large,
oval-subtriangular, 1-2 em. long by 7-10 mm. broad, shining,
silvery-white or reddish, of from ‘5-15 flowers ; fruit adherent and
concave on the inner surface.
First record : Galashiels, Selk., I. M. H., August 1912. In the bed of
the Gala within the burgh of Galashiels, Selk. Flowering July—
to September. Seen from 1912 to 1917.
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MISS 1.4. HAYWARD, F. L. 6.
PRESENTED 190,
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