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Page 23
... fruiting glume enclosing the palea and caryopsis falls away without any percep- tible portion of the rhachilla above or below it ; but that arises from the disarticulation taking place so close under it that the fragment carried off is ...
... fruiting glume enclosing the palea and caryopsis falls away without any percep- tible portion of the rhachilla above or below it ; but that arises from the disarticulation taking place so close under it that the fragment carried off is ...
Page 33
... fruiting glume . In several of the smaller genera , however , and even in some species of Panicum itself , it is membranous , but usually larger than the outer ones , and forming the chief covering of the fruit , never hyaline or much ...
... fruiting glume . In several of the smaller genera , however , and even in some species of Panicum itself , it is membranous , but usually larger than the outer ones , and forming the chief covering of the fruit , never hyaline or much ...
Page 40
... fruiting glume and palea is in some species very slight . There is nothing , however , sufficiently definite or constant in these exceptional species to mark them out as intermediate genera ; and here , as in so many other cases of ...
... fruiting glume and palea is in some species very slight . There is nothing , however , sufficiently definite or constant in these exceptional species to mark them out as intermediate genera ; and here , as in so many other cases of ...
Page 41
... are all , or the second ones alone , ciliate or clothed with soft hairs as in the section Tricho- læna ; and the fruiting glume is not much hardened . The species are few : P. semialatum , Br . , is MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEÆ . 41.
... are all , or the second ones alone , ciliate or clothed with soft hairs as in the section Tricho- læna ; and the fruiting glume is not much hardened . The species are few : P. semialatum , Br . , is MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEÆ . 41.
Page 44
... fruiting glume scarcely hardens ; in P. indicum , Linn . , and others the spikelets are small , and quite those of a large number of true Panica . ( 10 ) Eupanicum . After deducting the nine preceding sections and the succeeding ...
... fruiting glume scarcely hardens ; in P. indicum , Linn . , and others the spikelets are small , and quite those of a large number of true Panica . ( 10 ) Eupanicum . After deducting the nine preceding sections and the succeeding ...
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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