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... tropics , often covering the ground with innumerable individuals . Orchidea are difficult to preserve ; collectors bring home but few specimens from their chief stations in tropical lands , and those few often imperfect . Their study is ...
... tropics , often covering the ground with innumerable individuals . Orchidea are difficult to preserve ; collectors bring home but few specimens from their chief stations in tropical lands , and those few often imperfect . Their study is ...
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... tropical and other extra- European regions ; he had ample materials placed at his disposal , from the collections of Martius , Drège , Preiss , and other German travellers , and from the herbaria of Hooker , Arnott , and Lindley in this ...
... tropical and other extra- European regions ; he had ample materials placed at his disposal , from the collections of Martius , Drège , Preiss , and other German travellers , and from the herbaria of Hooker , Arnott , and Lindley in this ...
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... tropical and subtropical American species , with a peculiar slender habit and inflorescence , and characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two . It ...
... tropical and subtropical American species , with a peculiar slender habit and inflorescence , and characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two . It ...
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... tropical species , it includes the Mexi- can P. cymbiforme , Fourn . Cabrera , our second section of Paspalum , is limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) , forming Lagasca's genus Cabrera , in which the direction ...
... tropical species , it includes the Mexi- can P. cymbiforme , Fourn . Cabrera , our second section of Paspalum , is limited to the single P. aureum , H. B. K. ( not of Trinius ) , forming Lagasca's genus Cabrera , in which the direction ...
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... tropical America , E. trichopus , Hochst . , from tropical Africa , and E. villosa , Kunth , from eastern Asia . 6. BECKMANNIA , Host , is a single species , ranging from eastern Europe across Russian Asia to North America . It has been ...
... tropical America , E. trichopus , Hochst . , from tropical Africa , and E. villosa , Kunth , from eastern Asia . 6. BECKMANNIA , Host , is a single species , ranging from eastern Europe across Russian Asia to North America . It has been ...
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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