Muehlenherffia.] CLXXlii. GKAMiNEiE. (J. B. Hooker.) 259 



acute or minutely 2-toothed awned, awn very slender not twisted ; palea 

 owong, as long as the gl. or longer, 2-nerved, nerves almost meeting in 

 V, , P; ^^'■^^^ minute. Lodicules 2, very minute. Anthers short or long. 

 mes tree, stigmas short. Grain cylindric, free in the gl. and palea. 

 tjpecies about 60 chieBy temp. American. 



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'The above character applies to the Indian species; of the American 'Some have 

 only one empty gl., in others gl. Ill is awnless or 5-nerved. 



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^^^- ^-.sylvatica, Torr. & Gr. ex Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 

 intp +'^ i! (1845) 292 {excl. syn. viridissima) ; panicle erect contracted 

 Bed" 7ft 'i ^'■^^^'^^s very short flg. to the base, spiVelets very shortly 

 t^tticeued, gl. I and II J^-^i^ in. lanceolate acnminate, III about as long, 

 ts «;^\°.- jS^eiM?. Syn. Gram. 179; A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. St. 612, 

 i^ir A ^'■''**- ^- ^- I-'^d- 28. M. Duthiaeana, Kack. ir^ 

 ^ (To« i'"^^' ^'"'^^'^^- ^^««^- Gram. 64. A. sylvatica, Torrei/ Fl. N. Am. 



^iSTRirS^ Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-9000 ft., Eoyle, &c. 



Eerh 



^bv J-li- ' ^^^^ slender, branched, decumbent and creepmg below. Leaves 

 Pile ere" * ^°*'^P**^oth or scaberulous ;ligule very short, lacerate. Panicle 4-6 in., 

 ^Pikdeil^ ^^A^l^^^^' ^^^^^s and very short erect branches and pedicels scabrid. 



^pikeleU 



"linutelv n 7T^ ' ^''®*^* ' &^^- ^ ""<^ ^^ subequal, 1-3-nerved, keels scabrid; III 

 its gi. ^ °°""ed at the tip, hairs much shorter than the gl. ; palea about as long as 



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gatem^i, 7*'-^****"^*' ^^^^ ^^ Sietid. Syn. Gram. 178 ; panicle elon- 

 slendpr 1 ^^T^^^^^^y branched flexuous interrupted branches and pedicels 

 or WL^ ^ ^^*^ ^I ^o-^ in- equal or unequal, III twice as long 

 in jfv!: ' ^^° i-1 in. Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 28. M. Huegelii, Tnn. 

 A'ee* Z\t^- ^^t^rsl. Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 293. M. geniculata, 

 n. 3778 ^^"- G''^^^- 178 ; Duthie I. c— Podosaemum, Wall. Cat. 



^^Asu^Hn ^^ Himalaya, alt. 3-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim and the 



* Winter ^'f ^y^^'^^^<'^> but usually a larger grass, with longer broader leaves and 

 Nicelled . li'^ T*^ flexuous bright green panicle often a foot Ion?. Spikelets shortly 

 **ned wiA, u .^"*^ ^^ '^^^y variable, both ovate-lanceolate 1-nerved and shortly 

 *"•* nerveless^''* ^^^^^ '^°*^ ^^^> °'' ^ ""^'^^^ smaller oblong or orbicular crose 



^'QnKa^"i'*'?*^*ye»»8i»* Hack, in Herb. Duthie n. 10,128; panicle 

 "^^'s 8lenfw"°^, fastigiately branched interrupted, branches and pedi- 

 '"^aristatp tIv ^ ^""^ ^^ i~s in- subequal lanceolate acuminate or 



'"oaristatp Ttt , "^^"^ ^^ i~s ^n. subeqaai ianceoi»i..' av.u^ 



' ^^^ as long as I and II or rather longer, awn |-1 in. 



^"^'d^n.^ic.^ Himalaya, alt. 6-7000 ft., from Chamba to Simla, 



Thomson, 



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- vuiong. I^antcle 3-6 in., very narrow, slender, ne 

 ^^t. Spikeleis bright green, glistening, larger than in 

 wuich latter it is most nearly allied, differing in being mo 



sylvatica and 

 more slender with 



. ''^^^er leav.« • "" ., ^*^^^ ^*^ ^s ™ost nearly allied, differing in being more slender wit u 

 ^^ ^^ng n,,,^?' ;^ ^he laxer, fewer fld, panicle, in the larger spikelets, and m gl. Ill 

 fi ™«ch loneer thnn T n^A tt ^ 



'ger than I and II. 



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