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exserta, dorso pubescens minutissime ciliata, ovata 

 demum laceia: Culmi superne nudi , sub panicula 

 obsolete angulati , scabriusculi , 3 — uncias longi, 

 (in var. j5 semipedales vel trieiitales) foliis plenim- 

 que longioies: Panicula elegantissima, patens, latius- 

 cula, erecta, uncialis, peduiiculis solitariis, geminia 

 ve, scabris, subflexuosis ; infeiioiibus divisis, saepe 

 3 — 4 floris: Spicula nitentes ante florescentiam tere- 

 tiusculae, deindecompressae, subdistithae, ex viridi 

 violaceo et aureo vaiie.^atae , plerumque (etiam in 

 var. ^) 4 — 5 florae: Vah'ulee corollls paulo breviores, 

 parum insequales , variegatae, laeviusculae , apic© 

 tandem ad carinam scabrae; superior ovate lanceolafa, 

 obsolete trlnervia, nervis lateralibus vlx c«iiispicuis, 

 cite evanescentibus ; inferior angustior, lineari-lan- 

 ceolata, uninervia: Coro//<£ oblongae, teretiusculae, 

 ■versus apicem acute carinatae , approximatae (in var. 

 /5 demum reraotae) ; Gluma exterior ovato oblonga, 

 apice saspe breviier bifida, nervis 4 lateralibus eva- 

 nidis, parvimque conspicuis, apice srariosa, superne 

 plus minusve exasperata , ceterum laevis glabraque, 

 basi viridis, dorso pulclire violacea, apice metallico 

 nitoie flavescens : Arista vix exacte terminalis, sca- 

 briuscula, colorata, gluma sua multo brevior, saepe 

 subnullai Gluma interior plus minusve colorata apice 

 breviter bifida, ad flexurae nervosdistincte pubescens. 

 (D. V.) 



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