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Page 17
... never confined himself so exclusively to Gramines as did Trinius ; he never published any general con- spectus of the Order , and entered but little into general consi- derations of their structure and terminology ; but he described ...
... never confined himself so exclusively to Gramines as did Trinius ; he never published any general con- spectus of the Order , and entered but little into general consi- derations of their structure and terminology ; but he described ...
Page 22
... never do both together fall away from the rhachilla or axis of the spikelet ; it is the rhachilla itself that breaks up , a por- tion of which always remains attached to the glume and palea and keeps them together round the fruit . In ...
... never do both together fall away from the rhachilla or axis of the spikelet ; it is the rhachilla itself that breaks up , a por- tion of which always remains attached to the glume and palea and keeps them together round the fruit . In ...
Page 23
... never more than two , unless when representing a continuation , as it were , of the sepals , and never developed , to my knowledge , when the perianth is suppressed ; the bracts performing the functions of the deficient perianth are MR ...
... never more than two , unless when representing a continuation , as it were , of the sepals , and never developed , to my knowledge , when the perianth is suppressed ; the bracts performing the functions of the deficient perianth are MR ...
Page 24
... never shows any tendency to divi- sion , and whose insertion is not perceptibly higher up than that of the two others . It is quite true that it is often much smaller than the other two , sometimes very minute ; but in several spe- cies ...
... never shows any tendency to divi- sion , and whose insertion is not perceptibly higher up than that of the two others . It is quite true that it is often much smaller than the other two , sometimes very minute ; but in several spe- cies ...
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... never completed his revised arrangement of the Order . Since the time , however , of these great agrostologists , systems have been sketched out which require a few words of notice . Fries , followed by Andersson , proposed for a ...
... never completed his revised arrangement of the Order . Since the time , however , of these great agrostologists , systems have been sketched out which require a few words of notice . Fries , followed by Andersson , proposed for a ...
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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