Japan Flora: Stouter, culms 50-150 cm. long; leaf-blades flat or nearly so, 5-7 mm. wide; panicles 1Q-20 cm. long, rather loose, open, the branches geminate, with numerous spikelets; spikelets 15-18 mm. long, sometimes slightly purple- tinged; glumes lanceolate, acuminate to very acute, the lower 5-7 mm., the upper 6-7 mm. long; lemmas 8-9 mm. long; Europe