The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Briza (Ten species of this genus)

The ten species of this genus inhabit Europe, North Africa, temperate Asia, and South America. Leaves flat or narrowly convolute, sometimes bristly. To the species described on pp. 211-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. rotundata (round). fl. disposed in narrow panicles; spikelets erect. l. erect, narrow. Mexico, Brazil, and Chili, 1887. An ornamental, annual Grass. (R. G. 1887, p. 638.)

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