as little identified? Fls perhaps smaller, dark blue; calyxes not enlarging in fr. & more stiffly linear; floral bracts more definitely obliquely cordate at base; the tubercular base of lemmas not purple. 4-18-30 ? Bromus sterilis L. (more jets forma) Kut 323, Bar 507, Box 368, BVH 551 very like ill Bo N. Fl. Porto-Ric. 241+. Leaf with overlapping sheaths to top. Sheath & blades hairy, leaves longer than ? B. hor- daceus 4-20 30. Ligule 4 mm like B. l. - but less irate as well as ciliate. Sheaths closed part way or almost to top. Culms at top all branched ? Infl. pubescent. Infl & in long me awns, nodding very loose. Pedicels half-woaled (ie which grows half way around it.) unequal, simple or bracteate & bearing 2 florets, the longest 2 in long (not as long as Spikelets with awns if that is what BVH means 551) Base of pedicel (& branches) where joined to main rachis with enlarged globose part on inside. more marked than in B. hordeaceus and no subdendine bract at base Infl. 1st glume narrowly acuminate, 1-nerved, white margined 15 mm. 2nd glume similar but broader, 3-nerved 2 1/2 mm. both rough on mid nerve. Lemmas roughly all over scale 2 1/2 cm long white margined, deeply 7-lobately bidentate, 7-nerved, mid ners & lateral