152. TRIANDRIA.. DIGYNIA. 
LO’LIUM. Pl. Il. £97... : 
Cat. Common Receptacle \engthened into a spike, The 
florets pointing from 2 opposite lines, and each pressed 
close to a bend in the straw. #8 
Husk \ valve, awl-shaped, permanent ; standing op- 
posite to a bend in the receptacle. © es 
Bross. 2 valves. Inferior Valve narrow, spear-shaped, 
rolled inwards, tapering to a point, as long as. the-calyx. — 
Superior Value shorter, more blunt, strap-shaped, con= _ 
cave on the upper part. 
Nectary 2-leaved, leafits egg-shaped, blunt bulging 
_ at the base. (Schreb.) ee ae 
Stam. Filaments 3, hair-like, shorter than the blossom. 
_ Anthers oblong, pyres Je a s 
Pist. Germen turban-shaped, Styles 2, hair-like, re- 
_ flected. Summits downy. ae ese oe 
S.'Vess. none. The blossom encloses the Seed until it is 
bbe Sa Tee er ES ce ta i 
S#ED single, oblong, compressed, convex on one sidé, flat — 
and furrowed onthe other, =. hie ey te: 
_Oss. The angles in the spike-stalk lying inthe same plane 
with the spikets of florets, supply the defect of inner yalves to 
the calyx. Lin. But sometimes the calyx lias a minute | 
inner valve, as in the Lolium temulentum, 
bt 
-ROTTROULIA. Pl. II. f.3. (laxn. fil.) 4) > 
Common Recepracie a long jointed ike-stalk, in a — 
cylindrical spike; the joints alternately hollowed, ‘and 
set with florets of 2 kinds ; one with a calyx of 1 valve, 
hermaphrodite, sitting on the thickened projection of 
the receptacle; the other 2-valved; one on each side of 
the former, but rather lower, ‘and alternating with it. 
_are something smaller, and are cither herma- — 
Phrodites or females, though in some species they are 
only of one of these 2 kine. - nite Seton 
Hermaphrodites, of 1 valve. — ve Re ee 
Husk 1 valve, including 1 floret. Valve gristly, — 
ee Ne » lopped at the base, often notched at the 
be scored, gee Se hollow in the spike-stalk jot 
a cover; the ho! jing uurpos ane 
other valve, ” SEVIS ME PULP One OE Os 
| Cat. 
