148 TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Bross. 2 valves. Lower Valve the size and figure of the 
calyx. Superior Valve small, flat, roundish, closing 
the hollow of the other. 
Nectary 2 strap-shaped leafits, a little scolléped, 
_ (Schreb.) 
Stam. Filaments 3, hair-like. Anthers oblong. 
Pist. Germen roundish. Styles 2, hair-like, bent back. 
Summits feather-like. | 
_S. Vgss. none. The blossom unchanged, contains the 
seed until it is ripe. 
SEED single, very small, roundish, compressed, 
‘= DACTYLIS, Pi, Ti. £13. 
Cat. Husk 2 valves, containing many florets collected © 
into an egg-oblong spiket. Valves concave, keeled, 
convex, broader, and half egg-shaped on one side, 
narrower on the other ; inner valve larger. 
Boss. 2 valves, Lower valve large, concave, acute, 
pointed or awned; inner valve spear-shaped, acute, 
eet scarcely shorter than the other, 
ectaries 2, spear-shaped, tapering t int, bulg- | 
‘ ing at the base. ok ET Se ct 
Sram. Filaments 3, hair-like, longer than the blossom. 
: Anthers oblong, forked at each end. | és 
ist. Germen egg-shaped. Style nding. Sum- 
mits feather-li is Meat ees eves 
‘S. Vess. none. The blossom closes upon the seed until 
it is ripe. 
SEED single, oblong, furrowed on one side. 
Ors. In some species there is only 1 floret in each calyx; ww 
others 3, 4, or-more, er he 
-CYNOSU’RUS. Pl. IT. fu; Grin 1. 
Ca. “Common Receptacle unilateral, often leafy. bwolt- 
vonieniay ate of 1 leaf, lateral, Husk 2 valves 
véaning several florets, Valves strap-shaped, equaly 
; gl fee a point, — ee 
LOSS. 2 : oss Ec pelt 43 od 
Teg. aves 5 Outer concave, longer ; inner flat, gee’ 
 Nedlaty waa cages tae dee § eth Ie 
base, (Schneb Shaped, acute leafits, bulging at the 
Stam. Filaments 3, hair-like, “Anthers oblong. ae 
