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Page 33
... dorsal point ; the awns of Oplismenus , Chataria , the section Echinochloa of Panicum , & c . are straight and terminate one or more of the empty glumes only . The fertile flower terminating the spikelet is , in the normal genera ...
... dorsal point ; the awns of Oplismenus , Chataria , the section Echinochloa of Panicum , & c . are straight and terminate one or more of the empty glumes only . The fertile flower terminating the spikelet is , in the normal genera ...
Page 58
... dorsal , in the distinct styles , and other characters besides habit . I have named the genus after G. Thurber , who has much studied North - American Gramineæ and worked them up for S. Watson's Californian Flora . The genus formerly ...
... dorsal , in the distinct styles , and other characters besides habit . I have named the genus after G. Thurber , who has much studied North - American Gramineæ and worked them up for S. Watson's Californian Flora . The genus formerly ...
Page 77
... dorsal awn . The panicle is usually cylindrical and spikelike . 6. HIEROCHLOA , Gmel . ( Savastana , Schrank , Disarrenum , Labill . , Torresia , Ruiz and Pav . ) , about eight species from the colder or mountain regions both of the ...
... dorsal awn . The panicle is usually cylindrical and spikelike . 6. HIEROCHLOA , Gmel . ( Savastana , Schrank , Disarrenum , Labill . , Torresia , Ruiz and Pav . ) , about eight species from the colder or mountain regions both of the ...
Page 82
... dorsal awn ; a very few unawned species are scarcely separable from Epicampes , except by the shape of the glume . There is a considerable variety in the inflorescence and in the proportions of the glumes , but nothing definite enough ...
... dorsal awn ; a very few unawned species are scarcely separable from Epicampes , except by the shape of the glume . There is a considerable variety in the inflorescence and in the proportions of the glumes , but nothing definite enough ...
Page 88
... dorsal awn below the middle , and by the palea not more than half as long as the glume , and often quite minute or even defi- cient ; the panicle is also usually loose , very elegant , with nume- rous small spikelets or almost capillary ...
... dorsal awn below the middle , and by the palea not more than half as long as the glume , and often quite minute or even defi- cient ; the panicle is also usually loose , very elegant , with nume- rous small spikelets or almost capillary ...
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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