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2e "na fruits). The characters ay ailable for their distribution into tribos ant 
mera 
sub-orders. oy seca m been s idi apte e of inen: as to the precise cha- 
racters to be assig Bro ied hif n the position of the fertile 
teme s apparently. (hough not neonatal term isi ad either solitary or with a 
acer, whilst in Poaces t is i 
erified p j 
regions, but it piel be con erate tropical grasses, for I have seen dried specimens 
of Bicis for instance with short styles and the stigmas pe laterally en 
i in as ca 
miran above them acea. s 1 
have observed no iiie rai, except rae s in a very few Brno a tribe 
inctly separable on other d settles also the position of a few genera 
dee t huge, M Milium, inviati. etc., which might at first sight appear closely to 
lec tw 
NR tif hore of the tribes and subtribes is vers generally 
modi the study of Old Pod pt y Australian grasses, and may require some 
fication when a few American eds which I have not ieri e examined, are 
ideratio 
n, 
" may be objected by some that I have adopted too many monotypic or small 
genera, distinguished by characters of no importance, more so than I have dier] in 
er : 
‘ u 
iving p 
mentioned the lodicules, as, w aith the pen of the apparently 
t presence of the cem lodicule in Stipacez, I have not been able Y 
v 
eite be the abortive relics of organs ^ 
Physiological functions, Mem as such are necessarily variable in size and fo 
Constant, in position. When thin they disappear after figwsig: snd are 
