■ Daetylis.] clxxiii. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 33 



snbcompressed, ventrally channelled, glabrous,— Species few, Europe temp. 

 Am and Africa. ^ > i i' 



I), grlomerata, Linn. Sp. H. 86 ; leaves keeled, sheaths compressed, 

 igule long laciniate, panicle erect or inclined, branches short or the 

 lower long erecto-patent naked below, spikelets 3-5-fld., keels of flg. ^Is. 

 ciliale-scabrid. £eaui\ Agrost. 85, t. 17. f. 6; FL Dan. t. 743; Host 

 ^mn.Austr. ii. 67, t. 94; Kunth Eiium. PI. i. 386, Suppl. 320, t. 29, f. I ; 

 f¥-BotA.8Sb; Knapp Gram. Brlff.t.62; Reiclib. Ic. FL Germ, i.od 

 («<•«. f. 1 520) ; T.Nees Gen. FL Germ. Mo>wcot. i. n. 65; Webb. Phy tog. 

 ». t.249; WalL Cat. n. 88'J'J ; DiU/ne Grass. N.W. Ind. 39 ; Ledeb. 



^t.iiOM IV. 355 ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 596. Festuca glomerata, AIL FL 

 Mem. n. 252. 



JL^S°?a^aY^^^^'*^ Himalaya from Kaslimir to Kumaon, and Western Tibet, 

 where) ft.— Disteib. Europe, N. Africa, W. and X. Asia (aii alien else- 



„, jj ?'" "~^ ft- ft«m a sliort creeping stock, smooth. Leaves subglaucous, glabrous 

 ^anicPl * fT-"'^'^* *''° ^''^^^> ii^^rgins seabiid ; sheath much flattened or 2-e(iged. 

 ^pikeU ;/."■' *''''''^*> green or purplish; lower branches sometimes 2-3 iu. long, 

 "inate t. •'"' ^^''^^'^ > ?^^- ^ ^^''d II pale with green nerves, sub^iristately acu- 

 Enrone". *^'"'^'°''' ^o- S^- sterile.— There are many synonyms of this common variable 

 *8entaD°l 1 °*^' ^^^ '"'^ whole genus must be studied before the species can be 



115. SCXiEROCKZiOAf Beauv. 



Wriat 1 ^'^^^^l prostrate grass. Spikelets minute, 3-6-rid., compressed, 

 f-tchili ,{. "<^w<ied on the branches of a secund subspiciform panicle; 

 membra ^^^^^*^ under the flg. gls. Glumes 5-8; I and II very unequal, 

 "erved "^"^' '^'^"'^^'^e, emargiuate, empty, persistent, I 3-nerved; II 5-8- 

 tip obt',, *^"^'"^'*^<^'^ ; fl- gls. larger, complicate, keeled, strongly 5-nerved, 

 Mcu/ °l^''^^°^ ^y^^ii^e ; palea hyaline, 2-fid, keels spinulosely ciliate. 

 stiatnas T' "yaline, ovate, 2-4-toothed. Stamens 3. Stj/feH short, free, 

 2-4 P'"«iose. Grain oblong, free, subcoiicavo-convex, glabrous, tip 



Web l?'©' ^^""^- Agrost 98, t. 14, f. 4; Pieic/ih. Ic. FL Germ. t. 58; 

 11863)' Mq T- ^^- 367 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 635 ; Griscb. in Goctt. Nachr. 



— 'a. Link in Jjinnxa, xvii. (1843) 399. 

 •vasli 



*ems 4-K ^^'' "^'- ^000 ft., Thomson.— msTKin. Europe, N. Asia. 

 ''"'*'l»ODe., i-'"*, *"*''^^' wmpresscd. leafy throughout. Leaves linear, acute; 

 'fi' short 'LT'' "^'o'^g- I'anicle 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, rigul, green; pedicels 



I ovate olT' '^'■'fe'*'"""''- Spikelets \-i in., spreading or appressed to the raclus ; 



k1. I 



' ovato r^v^ ■b""""''- fipiKelets \-i in., spreaauig ui ..(-(..^c^-j^" -" "•- • 7 



""'^-oblone }, 5' "''*"'*'' ^*^''''^^' '"""-gins hvaliue; II twice as long; tig. gls. 



e. Herbaceous, compressed above ; palea shorter, oblong. 



gj^ 116. SCHISMUS, Beauv. 



•Wor^m on^^','^ grasses. Lea res narrow. Spikelets many-fld., in a sub- 



f-inicle, with very short erect branches and pedicels, not jointed 



