Crossword-Solution: BROMUS 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The presence or absence of barbs is a conspicuous difference, and in certain Gramineæ serves even as a generic character;[28] although, as remarked by Godron,[29] the presence of barbs is variable in certain wild grasses, and especially in those such as _Bromus secalinus_ and _Lolium temulentum,_ which habitually grow mingled with our cereal crops, and which have thus unintentionally been exposed to culture.

Above, see the slender-flowered fibrils, unceasingly swayed, of the purply amourette, which sheds in profusion its yellowy anthers; the snowy pyramids of the field and water glyceria; the green locks of the barren bromus; the tapered plumes of the agrosits, called wind-ears; violet-hued hopes with which first dreams are crowned, and which stand out on the grey ground of flax where the light radiates round these blossoming herbs.

The nine following kinds of seeds excited only a slight amount of secretion, namely, celery, parsnip, caraway, Linum grandiflorum, Cassia, Trifolium pannonicum, Plantago, onion, [page 386] and Bromus.

The wind swung the bennet and loosened his hold, and away he went again over the grasses, and not one jot did he care if they were _Poa_ or _Festuca_, or _Bromus_ or _Hordeum_, or any other name.

Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon-leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis.