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... connected in structure that they are still regarded by many experienced 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 ...
... connected in structure that they are still regarded by many experienced 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 ...
Page 29
... connected through other species . Before , therefore , we can ascertain the real generic value of characters which cannot be tested in herbarium speci- mens , it is necessary that we should have them well and authen- tically described ...
... connected through other species . Before , therefore , we can ascertain the real generic value of characters which cannot be tested in herbarium speci- mens , it is necessary that we should have them well and authen- tically described ...
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... connected with each other , but all apparently more nearly allied to Panicea than to any other tribe . In the first group , or Paniceæ proper , we have distinguished eleven genera - a number somewhat arbitrary ; for much might be said ...
... connected with each other , but all apparently more nearly allied to Panicea than to any other tribe . In the first group , or Paniceæ proper , we have distinguished eleven genera - a number somewhat arbitrary ; for much might be said ...
Page 39
... connection . The habit and inflorescence are those of Panicum colonum ; but it is exceptional in Paniceæ as having both the flowers hermaphrodite ; the lowest flower is , however , as far as I have observed , usually MR . G. BENTHAM ON ...
... connection . The habit and inflorescence are those of Panicum colonum ; but it is exceptional in Paniceæ as having both the flowers hermaphrodite ; the lowest flower is , however , as far as I have observed , usually MR . G. BENTHAM ON ...
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... as are those of the whole genus . The following eleven are those which have appeared to be the most distinct ; but they are all more or less connected by intermediate forms , and several of them would 40 MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE .
... as are those of the whole genus . The following eleven are those which have appeared to be the most distinct ; but they are all more or less connected by intermediate forms , and several of them would 40 MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE .
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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