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ro. TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
number. The perisporium appears almost precisely the 
same as that of many species of Festuca. ~ 
Species. 1. U. paniculata. 2. spicata, 3. latifolia. 4. nit- 
da. 5, gracilis. (An American genus ) 
99. *WIN DSORIA.+ 
Calix carinate, many-flowered, 2-valved; 
_valves rather large, scariose, uninervial, acute 
or ecuspidate. Spikelets thick: flowers closely © 
incumbent, and distichally imbricated; nerves of 
the dorsal: valve mucronate, with intermediates’ 
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2 intermediate teeth, inner valve with 2 setaceous pons, 
smooth.) 2. ambigua, (Poa ambigua, EuniottT:) Panicle 
small, naked, ramuli nearly simple, alternates spikelets 
ovate, thick, sessile, 5 to 6-flowered, dorsal valve 5-tooth- 
_ ed, interior valve deeply impressed, smooth. In both 
ona these species the stigmas are purple and plumose. 
‘This genus appears to be considerably allied to Bro- 
* mus, possessing, however, much more the habit of Pea. 
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