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Page 14
... appear to be really distinct ; whilst the number of bad species and genera of Graminee with which science has been overwhelmed is truly appalling . Looking to the future , it is only probable that the preponderance in number of species ...
... appear to be really distinct ; whilst the number of bad species and genera of Graminee with which science has been overwhelmed is truly appalling . Looking to the future , it is only probable that the preponderance in number of species ...
Page 18
... appear to me to be often better , or at least more natural , than those of Kunth or Trinius ; although they show in some degree that tendency to multiply genera as well as species , which he afterwards carried to so great an extent in ...
... appear to me to be often better , or at least more natural , than those of Kunth or Trinius ; although they show in some degree that tendency to multiply genera as well as species , which he afterwards carried to so great an extent in ...
Page 21
... appear from his description to have what we have been accus- tomed to consider as an essential character of the genus , the four to six empty glumes at the base of the spikelet . Where , there- fore , I feel obliged to differ from him ...
... appear from his description to have what we have been accus- tomed to consider as an essential character of the genus , the four to six empty glumes at the base of the spikelet . Where , there- fore , I feel obliged to differ from him ...
Page 24
... appear to me to represent the palea which is otherwise deficient . The minute bodies above the lodi- cules in the female flowers of Pariana , which Doell mistook for additional lodicules , appear to me to be rudimentary staminodia ...
... appear to me to represent the palea which is otherwise deficient . The minute bodies above the lodi- cules in the female flowers of Pariana , which Doell mistook for additional lodicules , appear to me to be rudimentary staminodia ...
Page 34
... appear , however , to be best placed in Panicum ; and all true Paspala bave the spikelets sessile or nearly so , in two or four rows along the lower or outer side of the rhachis of the spikes or simple branches of the panicle , and they ...
... appear , however , to be best placed in Panicum ; and all true Paspala bave the spikelets sessile or nearly so , in two or four rows along the lower or outer side of the rhachis of the spikes or simple branches of the panicle , and they ...
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Agrosteæ Agrostis allied American species Andropogoneæ appear articulation Asiatic Australian species Beauv Beauvois Benth botanists branches bristles caryopsis characterized characters chiefly Chlorideæ closely cluster comprises Crypsis dense Desv distinguished Doell dorsal awn East-Indian Eriochrysis European extratropical fertile flower Festuca Flora Flora Australiensis flowering glume forming Fourn Fournier fruiting glume genera genus glabrous Gluma Gramineæ grasses Griseb groups habit hairs helopus hermaphrodite Hochst included inflorescence Isachne Kunth Linn lodicules lower empty glumes lowest glume male flower Mexican Munro narrow nearly Nees Nees's nerves North-American number of species Old World Oryzeæ outer empty glumes outer glumes pair palea Paniceæ panicle Panicum Paspalum pedicel peduncle plant Poaceae Pollinia Presl proposed rarely reduced regions rhachilla rhachis Rottboellia sæpius scarcely sessile short single slender small spikelets sometimes South Africa specimens Spiculæ spike-like spikelets spikes Spodiopogon Sporobolus stamens Steud Steudel subtribe terminal tribe Trin Trinius tropical Africa unawned usually whilst