450 CXLIV. GRAMINER. 
the spikelets variously arranged in spikes, racemes, panicles or heads. 
Bracts occasionally but t rarely. subtending the branches of the panicle 
or single spikelets. 
A very large Order, omc i beige sg = whole world, in almost every 
variety of station, an nd s st important articles of food and 
raiment, or applied to a ee: variety ^ut. ay ar al purposes. Of the 102 genera 
here enumerated, t 1 only as co nteining inada ced species repos 
t 
as more pe ya known e 
indigenous. Of these, no less than 54 dean over bo th the New and the Old Work 
genera, there are at leas man y belonging to genera with indigenous species, are 
chiefly of European ret "^ very few South African, and one at least Asiatic ‘and 
another American 
Graminem have been the "cadis of i cds studies of ee of the most eminent 
tanists, amongst which the labo wn, of Kunth, and of Trinius have been 
portant. 
ing by the large number ot i t ‘ch 
without that general comparison which is especially needed in an Order in whi h 
large proportion of the Species have a very wide geographical | distribution, an pris 
compilation (Synopsis Plantarum Glumacear m). Nothing therefore is ages wahre: 
needed than a careful and judicious piee ji revision of the whole Order. Such a 
ra 
oxy upper palea. ering glume 
palea, and my empty glumes tate 4 glumes or neu Mira em p owais as they 
ically supposed resent glum 6s that have never any flow 
ea C: that Apae in other g spe pu Legi 
ower. should consider a flower i in. wein as perfect male, female, OF ^7 ne 
phrodite) when meque da tale and either a pene (mal il or both, radimer 
iz when reduced to bd palea, and no ed at all when even that is eue 
in an apparen enne cn iq same spikelet being deseri g 
twin) as Kunth, sesquiflorus (1} }-floweied) by Trinius, and niftorows ( 
x ) x ATE "i 
Graminez, the third Order among phen ogamous plants in tup of numbers 
(aen me Wier oe the p Mundus ia inf rilaalé, are uniform i 
Structure o eir organs of reproduction as Composit:e, nid x 
numbers of species (Leguminosae, the second, being mue n more varied in 
pel a aur 
