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Page 37
... densely ciliate . Besides several Brazilian and other tropical species , it includes the Mexi- can P. cymbiforme , Fourn . Cabrera , our second section of Paspalum , is limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) ...
... densely ciliate . Besides several Brazilian and other tropical species , it includes the Mexi- can P. cymbiforme , Fourn . Cabrera , our second section of Paspalum , is limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) ...
Page 43
... densely crowded on the partial spikes or branches of the panicle , and the second and third empty glumes , in the one rarely , in the other very generally , terminating in long awns . It was probably on this account that Kunth united ...
... densely crowded on the partial spikes or branches of the panicle , and the second and third empty glumes , in the one rarely , in the other very generally , terminating in long awns . It was probably on this account that Kunth united ...
Page 46
... as a well - marked natural genus , easily recognized by the dense spike - like panicle usually bristling with numerous setæ issuing from the pedicels below the spikelets . These setæ are 46 MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE .
... as a well - marked natural genus , easily recognized by the dense spike - like panicle usually bristling with numerous setæ issuing from the pedicels below the spikelets . These setæ are 46 MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE .
Page 48
... densely woolly - plumose ; in some of the commoner species numerous outer setæ of each involucre are glabrous , and as ... dense cylindrical spike or spike - like panicle is often above a foot long and an inch in diameter , although in ...
... densely woolly - plumose ; in some of the commoner species numerous outer setæ of each involucre are glabrous , and as ... dense cylindrical spike or spike - like panicle is often above a foot long and an inch in diameter , although in ...
Page 53
... densely packed in several vertical rows round a central spongy or corky axis . How far this arrangement may have gradually arisen after so many centuries of cultivation can only be a matter of conjec- ture . Its gradual progress cannot ...
... densely packed in several vertical rows round a central spongy or corky axis . How far this arrangement may have gradually arisen after so many centuries of cultivation can only be a matter of conjec- ture . Its gradual progress cannot ...
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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