1184 CC. GRAMINE. [Festuceo. 
conferte, rhaehilla supra glumas inferiores et inter flores articulata glabra v. vix 
minute pilosa, floribus hermaphroditis v. summo masculo. Glum:e 2 inferiores vacuse, 
anguste, i " is, parum insquales, extima prster carinam enervis, 
margine scariosa, secunda paullo longior, florentibus similior, sspe 3-nervis ; florentes 
secundz, paullo longiores v. breviores, plus minus hyalino-scariose, tenuiter 3- rarius 
5-nerves, obtusi v. i lz, mutiec v. apice v. dorso sub apice mucronaté v. 
breviter aristatz ; superiores gradatim minores, 1-2 sepe vacuze, v. rhachilla ultra florem 
summum Brdcto stipitiformis; palea hyalina, acute 2-carinata, glumze subsequalis v. 
sepius brevior angustiorque, 2-dentata v. 2-mucronata. Stamina 3. Styli brevissimi, 
stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis oblonga v. fere linearis, gluma paleaque inclusa, libera. 
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ramina annua v. Doronnin esespitosa, foliis angustis planis v. fere setaceis. Panicula 
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dense rarius elongata subinterrupta, glabra subnitens, v. glumarum 
pilis ginalib v. dorsalibus hirsuta. 
Species ad 12, plerzque Europ:e, Asiz temperatz et Afriez borealis ineolze, quarum una etiam in 
America boreali v. australi extratropiea et Afriea australi frequens, et in aliis regionibus inquilina, 
quibus addantur 2 bene distinctz, altera ex Africa australi, altera ex ins, Sandwicensibus. Beauv. 
"grostogr. 84, t. 17, f. 4. Kunth, Emum. Pl.i. 380. Brot. Phytogr. Lusit. t. 98, 99 (Bromus). 
Parlat. Fl. Ital. i. 322. — Coss. et Dur. Fl. Alg. Glum. 119. Dell in Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, iii, 126. 
JBuchan. N. Zeal. Grass. t. 38. 
Genus sat naturale, haud tamen facile definitum, in sectiones 2 ab auctoribus nonnullis pro 
generibus propriis habitas dividitur :— 
1. Airochloa (Keleria, Reichb.). Glumze acutz v. obtusiuseule, mutiez, florentes vix carinats; 
tenuissime 3-nerves. — Host, Gram. Austr. ii. t. 75 (Poa).  Reichb. Io. Fl. Germ. t. 98. — Nees, Gen. 
Fl. Gerin. Monocot. i. n. 64. — Axgocuroa, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 126, ii. 276. 
2. Lophochloa (Keleria, Link).  Glumse florentes apice v. sub apice mueronats v. breviter 
aristate, tenuiter 3-5-nerves. Host, Gram. Austr. ii. &. 21 (Festuca). | Ten. Fl, Nap. t. 201... Desf. 
FL. Atl. t, 18 (Cynosurus) et t. 23 (Festuca).  Loemocuroa, Heichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 42; le, Fl. 
Gerin. t. 19. — Nes, Gen. Fl. Gerin. Monocot. i. n. 63. — ZErazeS, Trim. Fundam. Agrostogr, 197, 
t£. 9. JEcrAzmNA, Schult, Syst. Mant.ii.13,222. [ue pertinent, preter species a. Coss. et, Dur. 
enumeratas, K. Gerardi, Munro, ex icem guste species prio aspectu prsesertim colore inflore- 
scenti:e Lasiochloe accedens, sed i ja lochloc, et K. glomerata, Kunth, 
Rev. Gram. t. 219 (K. vestita, Nees in Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i 294), ex ins. Cep riti species 
inflorescentia longa laxa insignis, in nostris tamen speciminibus densior est quam in icone delineatur, 
WiruEvustA, C. Koch in Linnea, xxi. 400, est, fide Griseb., K. pAleoidis, Pers., forma maera pani- 
cula depauperata. 
224. Aveninia, Parlat. Pl. Nov. 59; P. Ital. i. 415. —Spiculce pluriflorc, anguste 
paniculate, rhachilla inter flores longi tardius ; glabra, ultra flores in 
stipitem interdum glumiferum producta, floribus hermaphroditis v. summo masculo. 
Glum:e 2 inferiores vacus, extima brevis, angusti , fere setif , secunda ceteris 
multo major latiorque, membranacea, 3-nervis, 1 mucrone brevi terminata ; florentes (ssepius 
2-4) multo angustiores, circa flores convolute, tenuissime T9: os d, dorso sub apice 
breviter aristatw ; palea multo brevior, angusta, 2-carinata. Stamiha 3. Styli distincti, 
stigmatibus plumosis.  Caryopsis angusta, subteres, gluma inclusa, libera.—Gramen 
annuum, humile, habitu fere Schismi, foliis angustissimis. Panicula angusta, laxiuscula, 
ramulis erectis. 
Species 1, regionis Mediterranez occidentalis incola. —Guss. Pl. Rar. t. 10, f. 1 (Avena). ofi 
Planta a variis auctoribus ad genera diversa relata à Candolleo et nuper a Coss. et Dur. Fl. Alg. 
Glum. 120, sub Keleria doscripta, aqua nobis bene distineta videtur, tam i ia quam gl 
indole nullique nisi Eatoniz comparanda, et rite a Parlatoreo pro genere proprio áeceptá 
Ti 
225. matonia, Rafin. in. Journ, Phys. lxxxix. 104. (Reboulea, Kwunth, Rev. Gram. 941, 
t. 84. Colobanthus, Tin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, i. 60, Triseli sect, pro gonere 
admissa a Spach, Suites Buff. xiii. 163, non Bartl. Yoiubb parve, scepius 2-florze, pani- 
culatz, rhachilla sub floribus articulata glabra, ultra flores in stipitem nudum cies 
