festuca, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 353 



percttrrent or 3ubexcurreut ; II J in., ovatclauceolate; fig. gls. up to |-| in.. 

 «!m V' 1 "•/ *^" slender, up to Vg in. ; palea = the gls., linear-oblong. shortly 

 ^na, keels ciliolate. Lodicules obliquely ovate, 8ub-2.1obed. Anthers J^J in. 

 tm?Zv ^^^'^^ 1-2 minute hairs. Grain | in., linear-obloag, grooved, some- 

 «mes adherent to both gl. and palea, hilum nearly equal the grain,— It is impossible 

 fromTff \ t ^^^^^ glumed from the glabrous forms ; these vary in specimens 

 Karako M *^^^^*^^' ^"^ Clarke has found them growing in the same spot in the 

 Eumnp^"^ Af\' '^^ make a comparative analysis of the Indian forms with the 

 «ndlead°t^°th °^*^ ^^^'^ involve a most minute examination of all the latter 

 charact ^^r^^*^^^'^" ^^ ^ number of new varieties and subvarieties with ephemeral 

 muirJ^^* Most of the Indian specimens fall into Hackers subsp. eur, rubra var. 

 ferotu 8 ^- "^^^'Mlax (Monogr. Festuc. Europ. 138. 142). The glabrous stoloni- 

 orascenH^^"^^"^ answer more or less to his subvar. vulgaris ; those with short erect 

 tlicker r^ innovations to va.r.fallax and mostly to forma alpestris, which has 

 ^nat<L ^Th^ ^^'^ liighly variegated spikelets; the pubescent to his subvar. E. 

 ^ulf VI v^ F"'cipal synonyms cited by Hackel for these forms are:— F. alpestris, 

 WsA li 'JT- Z'^'*'*- ^^^ ^^nzU 4- Graf, 151. F. barbata, Schrank Prim, Fl. 

 ^WlU ■**-^^te''optylla, BmnJce in Jacq. Collect, ii. 93. F. hirsuta, FL Dan. 

 ^^hu2if}Y^''rr''^^^' ^' Kituibeliana, Schult Mant ii. 398 (for var. genuina). 

 F.pnWn '^^f^*'^^- ^ -^^^^ ^^- -^cAm;. 91. F. nigrescens, Lam. Encycl. ii. 460. 

 f»'" baik«l • ■^'^"'^- -P^- ^' ^- repens, Hegelsch. SfHeer I. c. 92. F. rubra, 



^.iaiiflw'?* ^''****- *'^ ^^^^^- Nachr. (1868) 74, is probably this. The true 



•^ceouscTr • ^*^*P^5 extravaginal innovations very rare slender, leaves sub- 

 'Pto 3 in J^ H® ^^^"^^y fi**t, panicle 3-5 in. nodding, branches few subsecund lowest 



ives and very long anthers). 



broad. ^^^*^^^ of leaves convolute, at length flat or subconvolute yV-r5 i^- 

 * Pin 



^ers hermaphrodite; innovations (when known) extravaginal. 

 y- 9ls. awned, aicn as long as the gl. or longer, very slender. 



Panicle 4!] fi*^****®a» Vill. Hist. PL Dauph. ii. 110; leaves araplexicaul, 

 *'*it iin V°"' V^'^nchea rather distant undivided to the middle, spjkeletR 



7*'*'»,H/. 1 Adn ^1^ 3 *"*» itwii twice a» iwiit^f c*uu"^»" " -, . 



I '^20; LlkTh,^''PP^- 339; i?^/c7iJ. Jc. i^/. Germ. t. 358; EnglBot. 

 ]i^- Indt n^: ^^•**- i^- 354, iJofss. 17. Orient, v. 621 ; Du^^^e Grass. 

 J^ocA in r'-''^''^- *'" ^«e^^- J^«^'^''-- (1868) 74 (/«p«rO. F. ariBtata. 

 H Fl A^'^T'^^ ^xi. (1848) 412. F. triflora. iSw. Engl. Bot.t.im; 

 St.l63n p--?'. *• 20. Bromus giganteus, Linn. Sp. Fl '/^ i'- 

 ^''^r. 8? tl ^t^>^- ^- «• t. 76 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. '87 ; Host Gram. 



Tiup ' ^' ^- triflorus, Linn. s/. PL Ed. ii. 115 ; FL Dan. t. 440. 

 ^■4< • ^'^ALATA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon.alfc. 5-9500 ft.-DisTRiB. Europe, 



^'.y^m 5'To"l°'"^' '•^ots fibrous. Sfem. loosely tufteJ, 2-4 ft., smooth nodes 

 * ''•'"'k L ^,y *~^ '"■. l"'"ear to liuear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, flat, 

 ?^^''* °f inaSsf ' ?'"^> "nany-nerved, smooth, margins minute y scaben.lous ; 

 Cl^^fy Hhort- *r*«' °P«» to the base, smooth or asperulous below the month ; 

 C> "^litaJv '*?"«?*«' g'"brous. >an,cZe ovate or oblong-ovate nodding, 

 i?/ 'Pfeadin-l ^' *^« lowermost binate, spreading, flexuoas scabnd ; branehlet s 

 t"* WX' ""^r'^'^^' pedicels short or the lower sometimes = the .p.kelet. 

 ^- VII. '*"'^'="l«tc, pale green, rachiUa scabrid j gls. membranous, I iVI »^-> 



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