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... lowest glume or none in Poaceæ , the exceptional forms are reduced to the lowest possible figure . This primary division , although tacitly approved of by many partial agrostologists , has not been generally adopted in systematic works ...
... lowest glume or none in Poaceæ , the exceptional forms are reduced to the lowest possible figure . This primary division , although tacitly approved of by many partial agrostologists , has not been generally adopted in systematic works ...
Page 27
... lowest glume . The total number of glumes in the tribe Paniceæ , for instance , is variable , according to the genus or section , two , three , or four ; the lowest in Reimaria , and in a few species of Paspalum , corresponds to the ...
... lowest glume . The total number of glumes in the tribe Paniceæ , for instance , is variable , according to the genus or section , two , three , or four ; the lowest in Reimaria , and in a few species of Paspalum , corresponds to the ...
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... . Where either of these two characters fails , the plant should be referred to Poaceæ . The articulation of the pedicel is usually immediately below E 2 the lowest glume , leaving , as the spikelet falls MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE . 31.
... . Where either of these two characters fails , the plant should be referred to Poaceæ . The articulation of the pedicel is usually immediately below E 2 the lowest glume , leaving , as the spikelet falls MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE . 31.
Page 32
... lowest glumes are reduced to slight callosities , or are so rudimentary as to render it difficult to say whether the articulation is in the pedicel or in the rhachilla . In the Cenchrus group of the tribe Paniceæ , in the subtribe ...
... lowest glumes are reduced to slight callosities , or are so rudimentary as to render it difficult to say whether the articulation is in the pedicel or in the rhachilla . In the Cenchrus group of the tribe Paniceæ , in the subtribe ...
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... lowest glume . It is now , however , ascertained that neither character is quite constant . A few Panica of the section Bra- chiaria have the inflorescence of Paspalum ; and the lowest glume is frequently reduced to a small callus , or ...
... lowest glume . It is now , however , ascertained that neither character is quite constant . A few Panica of the section Bra- chiaria have the inflorescence of Paspalum ; and the lowest glume is frequently reduced to a small callus , or ...
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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