Festucec.] CO. GRAMINEJE, 1201 
'Speeies ad 40, per regiones temperatas hemisphrerii borealis late disperse, nonnulle Americie 
australis extratropieze incole, inter tropicos paucz presertim montansm. —Beauv. Agrostogr. 86, 
117,F.9.. Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 419. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 73 ad T1. .Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. 
Monocot. i.n. T6. .Dall in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. iii. 107, 4. 32. Fourn. Gram. Mez. 126. 
Genus Festuce valde affine, differt sepius habitu, spieulis majoribus, glumis fi ibus apice 
evidentius 2-fidis et ovario apice villoso-appendieulato, sed character nullus in omnibus speciebus 
constans, Sectiones sequentes, a nonnullis genera propria nuncupatz, quoad species plerasque inter 
se bene distinctz, omnes tamen speciebus intermediis connexze. 
1. Festucoides, Coss. et Dur. (Schenodorus, Griseb. Spicil. Fl. Rum. ii. 247). Gramina perennia 
sepius elata, panieula laxa spieulis erectis v. nutantibus,  Glum:e laxe imbricatse v. dissitz, 
extima angusta l-nervis, secunda sxpius 3-nervis, florentes 5—7-nerves, arista sepius brevi nune 
brevissima, Caryopsis quam in JS/enobromo brevior, appendicula terminali interdum brevissima 
v.evanida, SeAreb. Beschr. Grüs. t, 11, 19. Host, Gram. Austr. i. t. 6 ad 10, . C, Gay, Fl, Chil. 
t, 82. 
ScuznoNonvs, Zeauv. Agrostogr. 99, t. 19, f. 2, species plures includit glumis florentibus minute 
2-dentatis quarum paueze ad Bromur (Festucoidez), plerzeque (an omnes?) ad. Festucam ipsam per- 
tinent, ScmEDoNonvs, Fries et Anderson, includit Festucoidei et. Stenobromum. 
2. Stenobromus, Griseb. Gramina annua v. rarius perennia, panicula densa v. laxiuscula, spieulis 
angustis sepius longis erectis v. vix demum nutantibus. Glum:w imbricatz, anguste, extima angus- 
tissima 1—3-nervis, secunda 3—ó5-nervis, florentes sepius 7-nerves, aristis longis nune longissimis. 
Caryopsis linearis, appendice terminali villosa integra v. 2-dentata. Hos/, Gran. Austr. i. t. 15 ad 
18. Jaeg. Ecl. Gram. t. 14. Desf. Fl. Atl. 1. 26. — Guss. Pl. Har. Ic. t. 8, f. 2.  Sibih. Fl. Gr. 
1. 82,83. Ten. Fl. Nap. t. 105, 106. .Delile. Fl, Eg. t. 11. Cav. Ic. t. 45. 
AxisANTEHA, C. Koch in Linnea, xxi. 394, est ex Griseb. Bromi tectorum forma flore infimo solo 
fertili, czeteris sterilibus. 
JB. scoparius, Linn. (B. confertus, Bieb.), et B. alopecurus, Poir., Bory, Exped. More, t. 5, spieulis 
angustis erectis in panieula oblonga dense confertis fere medium tenent inter Stenobromum et 
Zeobromum. 
3. Zeobromus, Griseb. Gramina annua v. perennia. Spicule lanceolate ovato-lanceolatm v. 
oblongs, erassiuseule.  Glumse quam in Stenobromo latiores, extima 3. 5-nervis, secunda 5—7-nervis, 
florentes 7—9-nerves, imbricate, dorso obtuse v. vix carinate, arista sub apice integro v. 2-fido demum 
&epius recurvo-divaricata, interdum. siccitate leviter torta, longa v. brevis, in B. brizeformi, Fisch. 
et Mey. Sert. Petrop. t, 10, ad setam minutam reducta. Schreb. Beschr. Grüs. 60,1, 6. — Host, 
Gram. Austr. i. t, ll ad 14,19. Jacq. Ecl. Gram.1.16. —Desf. Fl. Atl. (, 19, 20. — Guss, PI. 
Rar. 1e. 0.8, f. 1. Torr. Fl. N.. York, t. 157... Cav. Ic, 0. 589, 590, 591, f. 1. Buchan. N. Zeal. 
Grass. t, 56. — Bory, Exped. Morée, t. 4. SegRArArcvs, Parlat. Pl. Nov. 15; Fl, Ital. i. 387. 
Lejeune, in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 755, t. 65 (MicmgLARIA, Dumort. Agrostogr. Belg. 11, 
t. 16), est, B. (Zeobromus) arduennensis, Kunth, species Z. secalino affinis, glumarum florentium lobis 
lateralibus in aristas tenues breves abeuntibus. 
TniwiUsA, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 328, est B. Danilonie, Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 353, species 
B. (Zeobromo) maerostachyo, Desf., affinis, glumis fl p [p sub apice 
aristis 3 contiguis demum recurvo-divaricatis instructis. 
4. Ceratochloa. Gramina Smpius m elata. Spieule lanceolatz, plane v. demum medio 
Glume , rigidule, oO-nerves, vacus florentibus paullo minores 
exterum similes, florentes imbricatz, apice interdum vix dentate, arista brevi tenui, Species 3 v. 4, 
Americans, extratropieze boreales v. australes v. andinz. Willd. Hort. Berol. t. $ (Festuca). 
CznATocHrOA, Beauv. Agrostogr. 75, t. 15, f. 7, simulque DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 92, — Hook, FI. Bor. 
Amer. t. 234, 235. 
Fournier, Gram. Mex. 127, 5. (Ceratochloam) purgantem, Linn. (B. Hookeri, Fourn.) in Broio 
retinuit, et C DC. (€. f Beauv.) generice distinxit imprimis ob 
lodieulas lateraliter connatas, In speciminibus tamen pluribus tam indigenis quam cultis lodieulas 
vidimus lata basi affixas sed inter se liberas v. vix ima basi brevissime connatas. 
264. Brachypodium, Beawv. Agrostogr. 100, pro parte, t. 19, f. 3. (Hemibromus, 
Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 31r. diri co-flort, ees v. subteretes, in spica sim- 
plici paucs, subséssiles v. b hilla inter flores articulata glabra, 
floribus h v. superioribus imperfectis, Glum:e 2 inferiores vacuzs, floren- 
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