Feituca, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramixe.e. (J. D. Hooker.) 357 



1 ' 



i'o' %^^v sometimes almost capillary, groove! between tlie promiuent ribs, 

 ,\hAu ^ * '"■' sliortor curved, racliis smootb, wiry, grrooved, A- terete, with 



Ute rj'°°'.' f-PPf '^" **"' spik-elets. Spikelefs 14 u... green ; fl. gh. rigid, 

 tffete, nerves indistmet. iorficu/es subcuneate, acute y ^-lobed. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



F. filiformis, Rees ex Buthie Grass. N. W. hid. 42 is probably a Tripojon. 



BROMUS 



mj^"^^^^ or perennial grasses. Leives narrow, usually flat. S_pikeleU 



n^wii •"'^^^^'^^^^' laterally compressed ; uppermost fls. usually imperlect ; 

 tmila juinted below the %. gls., not produced beyond the uppermost 

 Jistent fT^* f any, I and II unequal, empty, acuminate, 1-5-nerved, per- 

 awn p f ^ acuminate or shortly cleft; 1- very rarely 3-awned, median 

 2 toon? T*"'^'^^'^®'^ sometimes twisted towards the base ; palea 2-Hd or 

 mire r? scabri.i or ciliate. Lodicules 2, oblong or lanceolate, 

 leas p 1°^ A '^''^'"^^3 3. Ovary obloug or cuneiform, crown more or 

 the t?n * u°^ ^^^^^ ^"^ villous. Stj/les usually inserted veutrally below 

 osnallv ovary, short; stigmas plumose. Qmin linear-oblong, 



nativi ^°°°^vo-coQvex and adherent to the palea.— Species about 40, 

 *"\ea of temp, regions. 



Podd* Srlf'"?f ', ^- B. K. {B. Schraderi, Kunth ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43 ; 

 W bp..n :.": , "''• ^7), a lall American species with mauy-uerved keeled^ gls. 



'Id elspwi. '^'^^ ^^^^ I"dia as a fodder grass, and has been found at Darjiliug 



»«:«nere as au escape. 



I-'»erJed.^Tr'^9^*^^^°^^^**' ^'o**. & Dar. Perennial, usually tall. Gl. I 



. ii ^nerved ; Hg. gls. 6-7-nervei ; a\vn terminal or nearly so or 0. 



'PiMetH"«*,ff**^**' -^''.^/»«- F'- J^<^^^- 16; rootstock creeping, panicle large, 

 i. Ill • v,.r I d^°-' ^'^fi '^f tig. gls. minute or 0. Pw//. Hist. PI. Palat. 

 -^•"'/ik ■n?''*'''''''- ^''^^*- i- 97, t. 13; ^05if Gram. Jns/r. i. 8, t. 9 ; 

 Cra;;, 32 d'- '' '^'^'^' ^"PP^- 340; Ze(/e6. i'7. Boss. iv. 357; iS'^eud. 5i/«. 

 ^^ici" A-v,' 7, **• ■^'^- <^»-'fc»i/. V. 642. B. littoreus, GV^r^z Beschr. Bms. 

 ^■K'lnd A'/'' ^^' ^'''^^f^- i^ Goett.Ncichr. (1868) 74; i)«//u"e Grass. 

 ^'^^eh Iri ^- P^irp'»-ascens, Turcz. ex Ledeb. I.e. ?B. vanegatus, 

 '."srmis linL^'''^-^- Schedonorus inermis, Beauv. Agrost. m. Festuca 

 fo'^c/i' iv' ^•^^''*- ii'- 49 ; J?eirA6. Jc. Fl. Germ. t. 70. F. Leysseri, 



"^- Tra^! '' -P«'-*- 'J^li'". ii. 94. F. speciosa, Sckreh. Spicil. Fl. Dps. 



t,as inermis, Panz. in Denl>^rhr. Akad. Muench. (1813) 296. 



•''•O'opc P n"^^'^' f'"i» Kashmir to 

 ,^Wi>',;^''"'-"'«-. N. Asia. 



'' '"■'«"«)¥« *'*^'''" «toloniferous, node 



Kumaon, alt. y-13,000 ft.— Distiub. 





es usually pubescent. Leaves G-9 by 



""■> niielv stoioniterous, nodes usually puuesceut. ^c,<c/c^ « - y 



■ o'^n«rve,i ^'('^'"'""te, glabrous or hairy above, mootli or scaberulous beneath, 

 - '"•■ ODHn .'-''* ^'"' ^'S''l» striate ; ligule very slwrt, truncate, toothed, tamde 

 ~' '"■■ 34.,,,r ^^^'^^''^^'^t^d, er.'ct or nodding, rachis smooth; lower branches 



arely purplish. 



'" Jfi 2if. America where B. inermis is absent. 



