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Page 34
... probably not the one entered under that name in Chapman's ' Flora of the Southern United States . ' It occurs also in Wright's Cuban collection under n . 3854 , and may be characterized as R. oli- gostachya , Munro , spicis in pedunculo ...
... probably not the one entered under that name in Chapman's ' Flora of the Southern United States . ' It occurs also in Wright's Cuban collection under n . 3854 , and may be characterized as R. oli- gostachya , Munro , spicis in pedunculo ...
Page 40
... probably the largest , among tropical Grasses , and is still in many respects polymorphous . In habit and inflorescence it may be confounded sometimes with Paspalum , sometimes with Arundi- nella , or even with some Agrostem . Generally ...
... probably the largest , among tropical Grasses , and is still in many respects polymorphous . In habit and inflorescence it may be confounded sometimes with Paspalum , sometimes with Arundi- nella , or even with some Agrostem . Generally ...
Page 42
... probably the principal ele- ment of Presl's supposed genus Alloteropsis . ( 3 ) Diplaria . This section is proposed for a few American species with a simple terminal spike - like inflorescence . The spikelets are sessile along the ...
... probably the principal ele- ment of Presl's supposed genus Alloteropsis . ( 3 ) Diplaria . This section is proposed for a few American species with a simple terminal spike - like inflorescence . The spikelets are sessile along the ...
Page 43
... rarely , in the other very generally , terminating in long awns . It was probably on this account that Kunth united Beauvois's Echinochloa with his Oplismenus ; but the development of the awn has now MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEÆ . 43.
... rarely , in the other very generally , terminating in long awns . It was probably on this account that Kunth united Beauvois's Echinochloa with his Oplismenus ; but the development of the awn has now MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEÆ . 43.
Page 51
... probably a mistake . I have never been able to see more than three , which are rather large ; but there are sometimes within them two or three very minute scales , MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE . 51 lian species, of which one extends to ...
... probably a mistake . I have never been able to see more than three , which are rather large ; but there are sometimes within them two or three very minute scales , MR . G. BENTHAM ON GRAMINEE . 51 lian species, of which one extends to ...
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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