A brome lives on: How a British grass escaped extinction
Read A brome lives on: How a British grass escaped extinction, an IELTS Reading practice passage. An inconspicuous grass, interrupted brome', once thought extinct, is being reintroduced into fields. Called interrupted brome because of the widely spaced seeds on its seedhead, this undistinguished Br…
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An inconspicuous grass, interrupted brome', once thought extinct, is being reintroduced into fields. Called interrupted brome because of the widely spaced seeds on its seedhead, this undistinguished British grass was found nowhere else in the world Sharp-eyed botanists of the Victorian era were the first to notice it and by the 1920s the odd-looking grass had been found across much of southern England.