Hordeum.] cLXXin. ORAMiXErE. (J. D, Hooker.) 373 



r 



Stemit densely tufted, 3-6 in., stout or slender, often geniculate at the base, 

 leairs short, linear, flat, glabrous or hairv beneath; ligule small. Sptk'es2~3l by 

 i-jin-j erect or inclined; rachis subfragile, green or purplish. Spikelets densely 

 crowded, sub hexastichous, J-|- in. long, awns longer or shorter than the gl. — Some 

 of l>r. Thomson's Tibetan specimens are upwards of 3 ft. high with the stem nearly 



«s thick as a troose-nnill 



a goose-quilU 



131. EIiYlWrUSj Linn. 



Characters of Agropyrum, but spikelets for the most part m pairs, 

 wees, or fascicled in the nodes of the rachis, aod enripty gls. usually more 

 or less collateral —Species about 20 enumerated, of N. and S. temperate 

 regions. 



roe 



otbe 



Boissier {FL 0)\ v. GOO) considers Elymu-^ as too closely allied to Hordeum 

 ? »t appears to be connected with Agropyriim through E, sihiricu^, and A. U 



To 



^l inamn Elymi placed more or less collaterally. It is as ditbcult to nmir tne 

 'Pecies ui one genus as in the other, and the more specimens one has of any species, 



tJ^emoredifficultitistoIimifcit. 



Av:n offl^ gj^ murh longer than the gL 



1- fi. Slbiricus, Linn, Sp. PL 3 ; spike short or elongate and 



jexuous, spikelets geminate and fascicled, empty gl^. subopposite much 



faoner than the 5-7.fld. spikelet, ti. gls, lanceolate o-nerved narrowed 



^^^a slender erect or recurved awn much longer than the ^K Svlire/j. 



^\i^ t. 21, f. 1 ; Kunth Enunu PL I 4^, SuppL 307 ; Ledeb. II Rr>s.. iv. 



WtJ. 



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1862, 99. E. nutans, Gnseb. in Ixoett. 

 f. Supvl. 114. 



.ooc> a. 



iSTr!fvf fJ^ ^ ^^P'^E Himalaya ; from Kash.nir to Sikkhi., alt 10-U,0 

 S '^..^^K-^TERN Tibet, alt. Iu-15,000 ft. (15-18,000 ft., Stoliczka).-^Dii. 



sl!" ,^'ii''*f' "'a, N. Asia & Americ-a. 



DiSTIilB. 



H^- 1-2 0:;s:;;^\Xr^:;ndIu„ ..oa.., e..oet inclined or dccorved 

 Ter» vl-\?P''''^- ^^'^'^e'hh in. broad, nearly smooth ; Hgnlc veo' short. Spd^ 

 Cith '''^- ^^0 ^"- l«"g. K.eeu or bmwuislt. straight curved or flexuous ; rach.s 

 eSh.ri"'"*'-^' ^'■'■^'■'< ^^ ••"•« the margins of it. hollows. 5/>«fc«Ws ^^ '".• '^"f 

 iU i^ 4*^' ^^^■"«' «e8«! e and pedicelled ; rachilla slender, mmntely «cahei ulous 

 W??^rl-^ - «''ort; gU^andllmo^t yariable,^!! Mt J.,gth o^^^^^^^^^ 



horizon,. r''"', "'■'' "^^i* 



»^<l Western Tibet. 



