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... botanists ; whilst Grasses , easily dried , abound in herbaria in specimens readily ex- hibiting their most essential characters ; and every local botanist considers himself perfectly competent to describe as new species or genera ...
... botanists ; whilst Grasses , easily dried , abound in herbaria in specimens readily ex- hibiting their most essential characters ; and every local botanist considers himself perfectly competent to describe as new species or genera ...
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... botanists who had acquired materials , rich for the time , chiefly from North America and the West Indies . Some of these had already been published by Michaux or by Persoon , with more or less of assistance from Louis Claude Richard ...
... botanists who had acquired materials , rich for the time , chiefly from North America and the West Indies . Some of these had already been published by Michaux or by Persoon , with more or less of assistance from Louis Claude Richard ...
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... botanists , who have not paid sufficient attention to , or have not seen , those drawings . A few years later , three eminent botanists undertook the general study of Gramineæ . Kunth at Paris and afterwards at Berlin , Trinius in ...
... botanists , who have not paid sufficient attention to , or have not seen , those drawings . A few years later , three eminent botanists undertook the general study of Gramineæ . Kunth at Paris and afterwards at Berlin , Trinius in ...
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... botanists as slightly different sections of oue genus . In both genera we see the whole spikelet consist of two similar outer glumes without the slightest rudiment of a flower in their axis , and of a third glume enclosing a flower and ...
... botanists as slightly different sections of oue genus . In both genera we see the whole spikelet consist of two similar outer glumes without the slightest rudiment of a flower in their axis , and of a third glume enclosing a flower and ...
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... botanist , he was thoroughly incompetent for the task he had undertaken . When- ever he met with a grass which he ... botanists proposed new genera for anomalous European grasses ; but these were published in works which entered but ...
... botanist , he was thoroughly incompetent for the task he had undertaken . When- ever he met with a grass which he ... botanists proposed new genera for anomalous European grasses ; but these were published in works which entered but ...
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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