1180 CO. GRAMINE. [ Festueea, 
P. macer, Munro in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1877, 350, species Japoniea: habitu tenui ab Arundineis 
diserepans, potius 4rundini ipsi quam. Phragmiti referenda. videtur, nam. gluma florens infima a 
vaeuis distans florem hermaphroditum fovet; species etiam quodammodo .4mpelodesmo affinis 
videtur. Genera hse tria inter se valde affinia, facile in unum conjungenda. 
TarcHoox, Hoth in. Ram. Arch. i. iii. 97, est Arundo Karka, Retz, Obs. iv. 21, Roxb, Fl. Ind. i. 
347, gramen in India orientali frequentissimum a Phragmite comuni non distinguendum, Genus 
Rothii proposi fuit ad d: p Retzii, qui evidenter errorem commisit a, Rothio 1. e. Leersio 
attributum, *eorollam' nempe sive glumam florentem ob angustiam suam et lanuginis densitatem 
in qua residet proetermisit. 
213. Monanthochlon, ON in. Trans, Acad. Sc. St. Louis, 1859, 436, t. 1, 14 
Spiculie iles, 2- rarius 3-florz, in fasciculo foliorum | swpius 
gemino sessiles ooculteque, singul»e foliis nonnullis stipate, rhachilla. brevi continua 
przsertim in d' ultra flores in stipitem interdum breviter glumiferum producta. | Glum:ze 
exteriores vacuze, foliis floralibus subsimiles, gradatim minores, distichze, basi membranaceze 
vaginantes, superne lineares, patentes, rigidze, cc-nerves ; lorenkes mombrapacees, rigide 
hyalins, obtuse v. denticulatz, paleam 2-nervem lut " 
Stamina in d 3. Styli in 9 distincti, longi, stigmatib longati breviter barbellat 
subplumosis.. Caryopsis anguste oblonga, subtriquetra, gluma paleaque inclusa, libera.— 
Gramen repens v. stoloniferum, foliis ad nodos distiche confertis lamina brevi rigida 
convoluta. Spicule inter folia occult», utriusque sexus aspectu similes, sspissime 
2-florze, sed in 9 flos superior solus fertilis videtur. 
Species 1, Texana, in Mexico nondum reperta. 
:.914. mtunroa, Torr. Bot. Whipple Ezped. 10 (158), errore Masa cipistle pauci- (3-) 
flore, ad axillas foliorum. floralium paucse, subsessiles, rhachilla. supra glumas inferiores 
articulata, floribus hénnaphroditssi ORE v. tertio solo fertilibus. ' Glum:e 2 inferiores 
vaeus, sub articulati latz, aeutw, hyalinse, enerves ; florentes 3 
majores, 3-nerves, integré retusz v. 2-fidze, nervo centrali v. omnibus in mueronem excur- 
rentibus ; superiores vacuze 1-2, florentibus similes nisi minores angustioresque, v. unica 
ad aristas 3 reducta ; palea hyalina, complicata, anguste 2-carinata, florem amplectens. 
Stamina 3. Styli distincti, elongati, stigmatibus laxe breviterque plumosis. Caryopsis 
ovata v. oblonga, a latere p , palea gl inclusa, libera.—Gramina annua, 
humilia, multicaulia, reptantia v. diffusa, rigidula, caulibus dichotomis v. fasciculato- 
Y. ileksierpnqite e foliis ad basin v. ad ramificationes confertis brevibus rigidis 
vaginis iter striatis. Spiculm 2-4, inter foliorum fascieulos 
subsessilea. et fere occulize, glumis florentibus longe ciliatis v. in eodem fasciculo glabris. 
Species 3 v. 4, quarum una regionis Mexieano-Texanre, ezeterce Ameriece australis extratropiese 
incole. Benth. in Hook. lc. Pl. t. 1372. 
In specie typica Texana, flores in spicula 3 fertiles, rhachilla sub quoque flore plus minus elongata, 
ultra florem glumas 1—2 vacuas ferente, glum:e florentes angusta NUM apice integre v.. enin 
dilatatze, nervo medio solo in mucronem producto v, rarius l 
Caryopsis in his anguste oblonga, palea tamen multo: brevior. ' In. M. zendocina, Philippi, nobis 
non visa, struetura ex descr. auctoris Sert. Mendoc, ii. 52, ei speciei typiez. bene conformis, In 
specimine tamen ad Cordovam Amerieze meridionalis lecto et a Grisebaehio sub nomine JM. mendocine 
accepto, habitu simillimo, spieulas valde diyersas vidimus, Omnes jam fructiferw sunt staminibus 
stylisque delapsis, glumze 2 inferiores. vacure iis M. squarrose, Torr., similes, 2 iE quinte arcte 
approximate, latissimze, carinatze, ultra medium 3-lobze, lobis 1. lib tis nervo 
excentrieo, intermedio angusto carinato mueronato, paleam angustam 2-nervem et Brew sterile 
foventes; quinta fertilis inter illas sessilis, pariter 3-loba sed carina infra lobos late alata, lobis 
angustioribus, intermedio fere ad aristam reducto, rhachilla ultra flores produeta aristis 3 terminata ; 
palea floris fertilis gluma multo brevior lata, hyalina, anguste 2-carinata, caryopsin latiusculam 
arcte amplectens. Grisebach, Symb. Fl. Argent. 300, speciem alteram Argentinam a nobis non 
visam notis pluribus valde diversam deseripsit, Genus tamen hábitu ab omnibus. distinctum videtur 
nulli nisi Monanthochloi accedens, 
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