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Page 14
... limited locality . The consequence is that amongst the large number of new species of Orchidea described of late years the great majority ( always excepting garden hybrids or varieties ) appear to be really distinct ; whilst the number ...
... limited locality . The consequence is that amongst the large number of new species of Orchidea described of late years the great majority ( always excepting garden hybrids or varieties ) appear to be really distinct ; whilst the number ...
Page 21
... limited ; but the only character he gives , the prolongation of the rhachis of the spike beyond the last spikelet in the one and not in the other , is in fact variable in both groups . Of others , again , I can form no idea of the ...
... limited ; but the only character he gives , the prolongation of the rhachis of the spike beyond the last spikelet in the one and not in the other , is in fact variable in both groups . Of others , again , I can form no idea of the ...
Page 26
... limited number of species that can be observed in a living state . The flowers of most species open only for a very short time , and in dried specimens are almost always closed . The styles , again , are in many cases so exceedingly ...
... limited number of species that can be observed in a living state . The flowers of most species open only for a very short time , and in dried specimens are almost always closed . The styles , again , are in many cases so exceedingly ...
Page 34
... limited to two tropical and subtropical American species , with a peculiar slender habit and inflorescence , and characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of ...
... limited to two tropical and subtropical American species , with a peculiar slender habit and inflorescence , and characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of ...
Page 37
... limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) , forming Lagasca's genus Cabrera , in which the direction of the spikelets is nearly that of Anastrophus ; but instead of being marginal on each side of the rhachis , they ...
... limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) , forming Lagasca's genus Cabrera , in which the direction of the spikelets is nearly that of Anastrophus ; but instead of being marginal on each side of the rhachis , they ...
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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