370 CLXXiii. GBAMiNK^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agfopyron, 



should hare taken Jacqnemont's mss. specific name for this species, had it not been 

 that it was taken up b> Munfo for another plant. (See Elymus siUricus.) 



5. A. Thomson!, Hook, /. ; lower sheaths villous, spitelajs 

 many ovoid erect, glumes erecto-patent, I and II ovate-oblong acute 

 or acuminate 6-7-nerved margins hyaline, flg. gls. silkily villous ovate- 

 lanceolate narrowed into an erect slender awn twice as long as the gl- o 

 shorter. 



Western Hiitalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft., from Kunawur and Piti, Jac^uemoni, 

 Thomson, to Garwhal, Strachey ^ Winter bottom, Duthle, . A f or 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout or slender, densely tufted. Leare.'i narrow, margins Hac^o^ 

 involute, upper glabrous, lower more or less hairy. Spifces 3-6 in.* rachis P"^^ 

 cent on the margins or all over. Spikelets i~% in. without the awns, ^-'-^"■; 

 internodes of rachilla short, scaberulous; ^Is. I and II with scaberulous nerve ,^ 

 II sometimes toothed at the tip and mucronate ; flg. gls. faintly nerved ; Keei 

 palea ciliate, 



** Spikelets awnless (or very shortly awned in Indian specimens). 



6. A. repens, Beauv. Agrost. 102 (the Indian form) ; stem vej 



slender, leaves narrow, spike slender, spikelets rather distant ^^ " _ 

 oblong quite glabrous, gls. I and II unequal linear or linear oDioig 

 obtuse acute or notched at the tip strongly 3-5-nerved margins scario ^» 

 II much shorter than III, flg. gls. linear obtuse or t^bliquely retuse ^ 

 notched strongly 3-5-nerved in the upper half. Be!chh. Ic. rj- ^^ '' 

 i.20;T,Nees Ic, FL Germ. MonocotA. n.80; Sleud. S,yn. Gram, ^^o^ 

 Ledeb, FL Ross, iv. 341; ?Boiss. FL Orient, v. 6(53. A. acutnm, 

 Hoem. .f ScL 6>^. ii. 751 ; Heichh. L c. t. 22- Triticum repeuy 

 Linn. Sp, PL 86; FL Dan, t. 748; IIos6 Gram. Anstr, u. 27, t. ^i ; ^ ^ 

 BoL t. 909; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. Ill; Kiaith Enitm. PL i- 440, ^^^i^i^' 



IvASHMrR, alt. 9-12,000 ft., Dutliie. Western Tibkt ; Gilgit, alt. 8 



Giles-, Ladak, Zanskar and Karakoram, alt. 8-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c. ^^ 



Sttms 1-2 ft., densely tufted at the base, erect or ascending. Le(xres - ^.^^^ 

 convolute when dry, -^^-^ in, broad, smooth, glabrous or puberulous ahove. ^J.^^^^ 

 3-6 in., erect, rachis slender, margins of hollows quite glabrous. ^Pf^^^l^.^,\xx\^, 

 very pale, internodes of rachilla ^short nearly glabrous ; glumes rather sp ^^^^^^i 

 call i quite glabrous; keels of palea smooth.— 1 follow Muuro, Ch^rke an. ^ _^*.^^,^ 

 (in Htt.) in referring this species to A, repens, though it differs much from ^'^:^^^^^^ 

 description of that species in the leaves not being scabrld, in the uneqmi n ^^.^^ 

 of which I and II are much shorter than the flg. and iu the latter n 

 lanceolate. 



7. A. dentatum, Jlook.f. ; root creeping, leaves flat, spi^^ ^^^ \l 

 spikelets imbricating 3-5-ad. quite glabrous or sparsely 1^^^^-^ ^fgte or 

 I and II large subequal oblong obtuse obliquely truncate unioe ^^^^^ 

 mucronate rarely awned very strongly 7-9-nerved, fl. gls. linear- 

 obtuse acute or acuminate strongly 5-nerved above the middle. 



Kashmir, alt. 9-12,000 ft., Jaaiuemont, Thomson, &c. Wester?? 

 Karakoram, alt. 14,000 ft., Clarke, ' -^^nro ^^^ 



Habit of A, repens, to which specimens have been referred _ov fj .j^g^ the 

 Clarke, but the spikelets (which are green or purplish) are closely iJ^^^^^';^ . %ocb 

 margins of the hollows of the rachis scaberulous or ciliolate, the ^^P^vrf^j^r >'^- 

 larger broader and as long as the flg. or nearly so and many-nerved. ,^^^^ aod 

 12,432 of Duthie's Kashmir collections I find along with typical A. ^cwiti 



