( 276 ) yill. Account of the Bromus triflorus of Linnaus, in a Letter to Alexander M'Leay, Esq. Sec. L. S. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. Read December 4, 1804. Norwich, Dec. 1, 1804. DEAR SIR, Mr. Crowe has this autumn discovered a grass on his estate at Saham, Norfolk, about twenty-six miles from Norwich, which is new to our British Flora, and indeed very little known to bota-nists in general, the Bromus trijtorus of Linnaeus, first mentioned by him in the 2d edition of Species Plantarum, 115. No specimen of this grass is to be found in the Linnaean herba-rium. It appears to have been described on the authority of Torskahl, as being found in Denmark. The only synonym is that of Scheuchzer, p.oll. t. 5. f. 19, from which authority it should seem to have been that Germany was also mentioned as its place of growth. Linnaeus in his manuscript has added a quotation of Fl. Danica, t. 440. I have Danish specimens, collected by my late friend Mr, Stephen Delessert, jun., which exactly accord with the above-mentioned figures and descriptions, and which are doubtless the -B. triflorus. Mr. Crowe's specimen no less exactly agrees with mine. I hope to be able another season to obtain a supply for the collection of the Linnean Society and my friends. Some later synonyms of the grass in question are involved in obscurity. Pollich and Haller are quoted in Reichard's Si/siema Plautarum,
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