Tab. i58. EUTRIANA multiseta. 



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Culmis caespitosis, basi repentibus, geniculato-adscendentibus, simplicibus; 

 foliis pilosiusculis, margine scabris, supra glaucisj spicis 3 vel 4, racemosis, se- 

 cundis, 4-5-floris3 Aore inferiore hermapbrodito, triaristato, dorso pilosiusculo^ 

 rehquis unipaleaceis, in fasciculum longissime 9-1 i-aristatum congestis; glumis 

 inaBqualibus , mucronato-aristatis. 



Eutriana multiseta Nees ab Esenb. Agrostogr. Brasil.p, 4i3. 



Pappophorum eutrianoides Trin. ined. 



Crescit ad Monte Video. %. 



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Radices fibrosae; fibris filiformibus , subflexuosis, glabris, albidis, ramosis. Culmi caespitosi, 

 basi repentes, erecti velgeniculato-adscendentes, simplices, teretiuscuJi , striati, glnbri, subbi- 

 nodes, fertiles adjecta inflorescentia subpedales, e summa vagina longissime exserti^ steriles 

 abbreviati, foliosi. Folia linearia, apice angustato-subulata , plana, nervoso-striata , plana, 

 membranacea, margine scabra, utrinque molliter pllosiuscula , supra glauca, subtus glauces- 

 centi-viridia , 4-4i-poflicaria, lineam lata; summum abbreviatum. Vaginae teretcs, usque ad 

 basim fissae, nervoso-striatae, glabrae, glaucescenti-virides, 1-1 {-poUicares, internodiis multo 

 breviores. Ligula : margo angustissimus, dense ciliatus. Spicae 3 vel 4, abbreviatse, in apice 

 culmi racemosim dispositae, secundae, breviter pedunculatae , geniculato-cernuae, distantes 



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cunealae, adjectis aristis 18-20 lineas longaej pedunculis dense sericeo - pilosis , genlculato- 

 reflexis. Rhachis spicarum angusta, subcomplanata , margine hlspidulo-scabra , viridis, apice 

 inaequaliter tricuspidata et libera, 6-7 lineas longa. Spiculae 4 vel 5 in quallbet spica, unilate- 

 rales, imbricatae, subsessiles, basi sericeo-barbatae , quadri-vel qtiinqueflorae. Flos Inferior her- 

 maphroditus , bipaleaceus , pediceflo brevl glabro sufililtus ; reliqui unipaleacei , neutri , imbri- 

 cato-congesti, referentes fasciculum pediceUatum aristarum 9-11 strictarum hispido-scabrarum 

 virescenti-aU)idarum uni-vel sesquipoUicariimi, inferne a marglnibus paleoe inferioris floris her- 

 maphroditi amplexum ipsamque triplo superantem. Glumae duae, valde inaequales, membrana- 

 ceae, uninervlae, stramineo-albidae, glabrae; Inferior (interlor) concavo-carinata , ovato-lanceo- 

 lata, inaequilatera, apice in aristam brevem scabram producta ibique ad latus latius ab arista 

 soluta^ dentem subulatum referens, carina scabra ; superior (exterioi) triplo longior et robustior, 

 ovato-lanceolata, concava, dorso scabriuscula , apice bifida, inter lacinias subulatas in aristam 

 brevem scabram rectam producta, florem hermaphroditum superans. FIos hermaphrodltus : 

 Paleae duae, corlaceo-membranaceae , stramlneo-albidae ; inferior oblonga, apice trifida et tria- 

 ristata (laclnla media magls producta, ad utrumque aristae basim soluta lobosque subulatos 

 referens , laterales nonnisi adunum, exterlus, latus lobato-solutae), trlnervia, concava, marglni- 

 bus paleam superlorem fasclculumque flonmi sterilium Infeme amplectens, dorso adpresso- 

 pilosiuscula; aristls rectiusculis , scabrls, albidis, patulls, palea brevioribus, Intermedla laterales 

 paulo superante. Palea superlor paleam inferiorem J superans, ovato lanceolata, apice blfida, 

 lobis subulatis scabris rectis, binervia, dorso leviter canaliculata, marginibus inflexa, genltalia 

 amplectens, nervis virldibus, superne scabriusculis. Squamulae duae, laterales, mlnutae, valde 



