274 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [VescMmpsia. 



spikelets very sliortly pe(3icelled imbricating brownish-yellow, gls. Ill and 

 IV broad more or le^s 2-lobed lobes irregularly toothed. 



Kashmir and Baltistan, Dras, and Iskardo, alt. 10-14,500 ft., Clarh 



Duthie, — DiSTBiB. Turkestan. 



Stem 6-18 in., leafy below, rather stout, strict, erect. Leaves 2-5 by ^ i^ 

 linear, acute, flat, nearly smooth ; ligule oblong. Fanicle 1-1^ in,, erect. Spifieit» 

 ^-iin. ; gl. I shorter than II, sometimes 2-lobed nearly i way down with erotf 

 lobes, at others hardly lobed but unequally rather deeply toothed.— Perhaps only » 

 form of jD. ccespitosa, the flg. glumes of which vary much in breadth and toothing. 

 Kegel describes the leaves of kcelerio^es as narrow setaceous and scabnd abov^ 

 which is totally at variance with liis specimens, which are even broader than those oi 

 the Indian plant. 



lAnn 



81* HOLOUS, Unn. 



Annual or perennial tomentose grasses. Leaves usually flat, opif^^^^^ 

 panicled, laterally compressed, oblong, 2-fld. (both fl. bisexual, or upf^r 

 male or neuter), not jointed on their pedicels; rachilla articulate at t 

 base produced into a short stipes beyond gl. lY, Glumes 4; I and 1 

 empty, persistent, obtuse or acute, keeled, I 1-nerved ; H^"^®'^ , '^u 

 and IV shorter than I and II, membranous; III not awned, »* J.^^ 

 hardened ; IV with a slender dorsal awn ; palea narrow, 2-keeled. -^*^^*^!f 

 2, cutieiform. Stamens 3. Stales very short, distinct. Grain oblong, tree 

 within the hardened gl. — Species about 8, European and African. 



Sp. PL 1047; perennial, softly tomentose, jpani^« 

 spreaamg pale green, spikelets ^ in., awn of gl. IV hardly exserted. ^ • 

 Ban. t. 1181 ; Host Gram. Auatr. i. p. 276, t. 2 ; Engl. Bot. 1. 1169 ; mi 



_ itt. 1. 17 ; Knnth Enum. PI i. 34, SuppL 24, t. 9, f. 2 ; Ledei>- n^ 

 Ross. iv. 410 ; Beichh, Ic\ FL Germ. t. 105 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, v. 5^;^. • 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Darjeeling. alt. 7000 ft., Clarke, apparently naturalize .- 

 DiSTRiB. Europe, temp. Asia. -^ jj, . 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely tufted, roots fibrous, nodes villous. Leaves 6-1 •• 

 upper sheaths inflated; ligule short, oblong. Panicle 2-5 in., branches i-^- 

 Spikelets pale green or reddish ; gl. I and II acute or apiculate, stronglj-"^.^ ^ ' 

 II often retuse and mucronulate ; III smooth and shining in f>"^^^'T'^'^!!!i\nto 

 an almost equally common European grass, may be expected to be "**" "JlLv and 

 the hills of Imiia; it closely resembles H, lanatus, but has a creeping rootstoc 

 the awn of gl. IV is longer and exserted. 



Gram. BHtt 



82. AVENA, Linn. 

 (Including Thisetum, Beauv.) 



2- or 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves usually flat. ^P}^ f^^\!Qt\^ 

 more-fld., in effuse contracted or Bpiciforra panicles, not jointed o 

 pedicels; rachilla jointed at the base and sometimes between ^^jj, 

 glumes. Glumes doraally rounded, I and II empty, subequal or ti ^h^.^ 

 thin, persistent, few- or many-nerved; fl. gls. ovate or ^^"^^^ ^Letini** 



2-toothed or -cleft, lobes awned or not, 3^7-nerved, lateral serves som^ ^^ 

 obsolete; awn dorsal below the cleft, usually long and K.^°\^^ g(jabri^ 

 reflexed with a twisted base, rarely straight; palea narrow, keels ^^^j^ 

 or ciliate. Lodicules usually 2-fid. Ovary glabrous or top ^^"^? kerec* 



short, free. Grain various, free or (in some sp, . 

 to the palea. — Species many, chiefly N. temperate. 



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