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Page 41
... loose , scattered along the peduncle , and erect . The glumes 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 ...
... loose , scattered along the peduncle , and erect . The glumes 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 ...
Page 45
... loose , often nodding panicles . ( 11 ) Tricholæna ( including Nees's genus Rhynchelytrum ) , raised by Parlatore and some others to the rank of a genus , has the loose panicle of Eupanicum ; but the fruiting glumes are not much ...
... loose , often nodding panicles . ( 11 ) Tricholæna ( including Nees's genus Rhynchelytrum ) , raised by Parlatore and some others to the rank of a genus , has the loose panicle of Eupanicum ; but the fruiting glumes are not much ...
Page 47
... loose panicle of two or more pedunculate spikes . 12. CENCHRUS itself , as reduced from the original Linnean genus , consists of about a dozen species , both from the New and the Old World , two or three of them of very wide ...
... loose panicle of two or more pedunculate spikes . 12. CENCHRUS itself , as reduced from the original Linnean genus , consists of about a dozen species , both from the New and the Old World , two or three of them of very wide ...
Page 54
... loose in- florescence and stamens often , but not always , more than three ; and Alopecureæ , European or temperate Asiatic or African genera , with a dense spike - like inflorescence and stamens never more than three . Zizanies ...
... loose in- florescence and stamens often , but not always , more than three ; and Alopecureæ , European or temperate Asiatic or African genera , with a dense spike - like inflorescence and stamens never more than three . Zizanies ...
Page 59
... loose , and spreading , with very numerous small or minute spikelets , whilst in a few species it is short and dense , forming almost an oval head with larger spikelets . The two sections proposed by Nees - Meliosaccharum , with a small ...
... loose , and spreading , with very numerous small or minute spikelets , whilst in a few species it is short and dense , forming almost an oval head with larger spikelets . The two sections proposed by Nees - Meliosaccharum , with a small ...
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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