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... spikelet , next to the main axis in Chlorideæ and Hordeaceæ , and averted from it or external in other tribes . But , in ... spikelets it is often uncertain which is to be regarded as the lowest glume . The total number of glumes in the ...
... spikelet , next to the main axis in Chlorideæ and Hordeaceæ , and averted from it or external in other tribes . But , in ... spikelets it is often uncertain which is to be regarded as the lowest glume . The total number of glumes in the ...
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... spikelets may be constant . Differences in the size of the embryo , in the form of the so- called scutellum on the caryopsis ( indicative , apparently , of the hilum of the seed ) , or in the longitudinal groove or cavity fre- quently ...
... spikelets may be constant . Differences in the size of the embryo , in the form of the so- called scutellum on the caryopsis ( indicative , apparently , of the hilum of the seed ) , or in the longitudinal groove or cavity fre- quently ...
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... spikelet or cluster of spikelets , and the single fertile flower apparently terminal , with or without a single male or sterile one below it . Where either of these two characters fails , the plant should be referred to Poaceæ . The ...
... spikelet or cluster of spikelets , and the single fertile flower apparently terminal , with or without a single male or sterile one below it . Where either of these two characters fails , the plant should be referred to Poaceæ . The ...
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... spikelet , but under a little cluster of two or more spikelets ; and in Maydeæ it is the rhachis of the spike which disarticulates under each female spikelet . In Gramineæ generally , however , the articulation , whether of the rhachis ...
... spikelet , but under a little cluster of two or more spikelets ; and in Maydeæ it is the rhachis of the spike which disarticulates under each female spikelet . In Gramineæ generally , however , the articulation , whether of the rhachis ...
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... spikelet is , in the normal genera , either perfectly hermaphro- dite , or , at any rate , as far as I have observed , has ... spikelets . The normal genera of the tribe may be distributed in four rather distinct groups , though scarcely ...
... spikelet is , in the normal genera , either perfectly hermaphro- dite , or , at any rate , as far as I have observed , has ... spikelets . The normal genera of the tribe may be distributed in four rather distinct groups , though scarcely ...
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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