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Page 15
... present object being merely to consider Gramines with reference to their classification and affinities . In a systematic point of view , the great mistake of Linnæus and the earlier syste- matists was the attempt to regard the whole ...
... present object being merely to consider Gramines with reference to their classification and affinities . In a systematic point of view , the great mistake of Linnæus and the earlier syste- matists was the attempt to regard the whole ...
Page 18
... present one , several continental botanists proposed new genera for anomalous European grasses ; but these were published in works which entered but little into general cir- 6 culation , and were overlooked by Beauvois , Persoon 18 MR ...
... present one , several continental botanists proposed new genera for anomalous European grasses ; but these were published in works which entered but little into general cir- 6 culation , and were overlooked by Beauvois , Persoon 18 MR ...
Page 22
... present occa- sion . I would only add a few words in further reply to the objec- tion repeatedly made to me that the falling off together of the flowering glume and palea ( commonly called the two pales ) en- closing the fruit , is a ...
... present occa- sion . I would only add a few words in further reply to the objec- tion repeatedly made to me that the falling off together of the flowering glume and palea ( commonly called the two pales ) en- closing the fruit , is a ...
Page 23
... present , must be regarded as two or three bracteoles inserted alternately fore and aft on the floral axis below the flower . And he has made out a good case in favour of his view , but perhaps not an unanswerable one . The first ...
... present , must be regarded as two or three bracteoles inserted alternately fore and aft on the floral axis below the flower . And he has made out a good case in favour of his view , but perhaps not an unanswerable one . The first ...
Page 24
... present , 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 ...
... present , 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 ...
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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