^i^d] ClXxIH. GIiAMlNb:^. (J. D, Hooker.) 273 



scabrid, ligule long. Panicle 1-2 in. long and broad. SpiJceleU ^^^-^ in., ovoid, 

 ihiuiog, gl. I and II ovate, exceeding II and III, keels scabridj tips of tig. gls. 

 Z-setose; awn twice as long as the gls., bent. 



81. DBSCKAMPSIA, Beauv. 



M.^^^^^oial grasses, ieaye^ flat or convolute. Spikelets^- {rs.re\j Z-) flJ. 



IfflT k^^^^^^*^-^ P^^^^^^^' not jointed on their padicels ; rachilla jointed 

 « the base, produced beyond gl. IV as a naked or penicillate stipes rarely 

 paring a m*dle fl. Glumes 4; I and II empty, subequal, or II larorest, 

 tint fkS*^®®'^^' acute, membranous, shiuiag; III and IV subhyaline, 



toothed 



P looined or lobed ; awn dorsal, slender, straight or twisted; palea narrow, 

 ^•nerved, Lodipuloa i^TT«+^ «««u„ oj«™«„« o c*,,/,,^ /i;c,4.;»^rtf n^nlvt 



•nerved. Lodicules ovate, fleshy. Stamens 3. Sti/les 

 oDiong, tree withia the gl.— Species about 20, of temp, re 



*• 01 CBBRnlhnaa Z> jl j rvi i 1 o i! o. _i 



distinct. Orain 



about 20, of temp, regioas. 



dJ'i'*"/®®^""**' -Seaww. Ajrost. 91, t. 18, f . 3 ; stem short or tall, 

 W 1 .^ ^^ contracted, spikelets variable in size, gl. I aad II ovate- 

 Jn ,k . ^'^'^^^ subequal or II rather longer, lY hirdly exc;?eding 11, 

 ?*iaboutenn«.lHn. .1,. „i „._„:^, twisted. Kunth Enmn. Fl.i. 



T. Nees Oan. Fl. Germ. 

 Sooh'V'vj^i: '*^' -"'^*"'*- ^^- (Orient, v. 531; Benth. Fl. Auttral. vn. oS7 ; 

 linn i h, ^^^- ^- 301 ; Duthie Grass. JV.IF. Lid. 31. Aira csBspitosa, 

 Brilt /'o., ^^5 -f'^- -Dti«. ii. t. 2I.0; Fngl. Bot. t. 1453; Xnapp Gram. 

 A.Kin •• li- '*''' ^P- ^»'«'«- ^c. t. 253. 256; Heickh. Ic. FL Germ. t. 96. 

 Ml S^ fi-^ i'^'"^' ^^- ^«^«^^^- '^'^^' t. 135. A. major, S>/me Engl. Bot. Ed. 

 Oram 9tQ -iT* °ii°^os, Jarquem. mss. Triodia splendida, Sieud. Sj/n. 



. ^'*y— Deschampsia, Wall. Cat. n. 3802; Gramin. Wall. I.e. n. 8911. 



^bmir^'l!!^^^/^*^ Alpine Himalaya and Western Tibet, in sw:imps from 

 r^iong, ^liotan, alt. 10-16,500 ft.— Distrib, N. aud S. temp, and cold 



* in*sma1I°'w ^^^^^y 3 feet high, stout or slender, smooth, shiniucr, leafy upwards 





Leaves short or long, flat, rather softly 



Panicle 



>n 8hnrf^!i siuooth; sheatlis smooth, upper very Iom^; ligule obtuse. P( 

 ^^"ches anH ,.^'*^^- ^^^ erect, or lax-fld. effuse and inclined, sparingly branched ; 

 Hin whit ^^ ^^^^® capillary, smooth or minutely sparsely scaberulous. Spikelefs 

 ^^ve \^^ ^»d silvery or fulvous purplish; rachilla slender, hairy; gl. land II 

 *^ncat^ ^oacute, nerveless, or II which is broadest sub-3-nerved ; III and IV 



•^Ml.-. r u „ ' ci-enate or irregularly toothed, callus silkily hairy; awa dorsal, aub- 



». ^ nave nnf uff« i_j ? .■',.,' ^n- i ^ „„=r«^nni;t.:in 



eu 

 ra 



^"^Ita w^ If , ""'^ -L-*. icmperate aud Arctic zones, vv aniens n. ^./l^ — - 

 "^'"> coernl "^,'"-" '^'^^ ^o"g a puzzle to me. It is accompauied with trie ticket 

 *' ^olini^ ^ *^ *'■'>" wliich latter word Dr. Stapf reco<r.iizeJ as the Swedish 



"* Swedish "'**• No doubt the specimen, which is of Deschamp.iia ccespitosa, 

 u. V color *' '*°^ ^''"* '"troduced by accident into the M idras Herbarium _ 

 ^^« short K I ^''''''^- Spicil. Fl. Rumel. ii. 457 ; stem short strict 4-b in., 

 ^«J short «n;b*r ' P''"''-'^^ small broadly ovate deuse-fld., pedicels and branclilets 

 '^'"ianu • T* '*^' '^'''^ brouzy-yellow, sometimes 3.fld., Boiss. I. c. D. Bieber- 

 7^ trevifoui' •^- .^^"'i*- ii- 380. D. brevilblia, Sr. in Parry Voy. App. 191. 



2^6) 433 a' „^.?*- ^- ra«r. Cauc. iii. 63. A. triflora, Tnn. ^n Flora i. 

 •''•le.SOjft ..^'I'^'^l'nsii, S/e«rf. Sun. Gram. 219.-Western Tibet; Balch Pass, 

 ^ «•. i>«rac/i. ^ TFi„«cr/>. Sikkim, alt. 14-16,000 ft., J. D. E. 



'■"'sfo'rt^?^®'****^®** ^eaeZ in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xli. (1868) 299; 

 Vol. vii ^^^^ ^^sal linear erect, panicle short ovoid or subspieiform, 



