CXLII. GRAMINES. 
keeled, acute or awned or rarely 
blunt. Panicle contracted, spike- 
like . - » TA, 
Flowering glume and ‘palea pointless, 
thick, the nerves parallel. 
Flowering glume convex or rounded 
on back, faintly 5-nerved . aon 
The section of Festuca, called Scha- 
nodorus, would come here rf sas 
Flowering glume generally com- 
pressed, keeled, 5-nerved, mem- 
branous ; palea falling off with 
flowering glume. . = £0 
Flowering glume keeled, 3- nerved, 
deciduous ; palea persistent . 
Grain adhering to palea, except in the sect. 
Schenodorus of Festuca. 
Spikelets all similar, equally fertile. 
Flowering glume rounded at back, very 
obtuse, pointless, many-nerved . . 78. 
Flowering glume rounded on back, acute 
pointed or awned at top, few- nerved, 79. 
Flowering glume convex or keeled on 
back, mostly awned or bristle-bearing 
below the 2-cleft top, 5—9-nerved. 
Grain not 3-horned or angled . 
Spikelets dissimilar, some fertile, some 
sterile : : 
Stamens 6, rarely 3 
Two lowest flowering glumes male or neuter, 
very unlike the solitary fertile one . 
Subtribe 7. BAMBUSER. 
Spikelets with only 1 perfect flowering glume, 
nearly sessile. Stamens 6. Stigma deeply 3-fid 84. 
Subtribe 8. HorDEAcER. 
Spikelets placed singly at each joint of the rachis. 
Spikelets decidedly sessile. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, with a terminal rudi- 
mentary glume, somewhat immersed in 
the rachis 2 . 85. 
Spikelets several- flowered, 1 glume obsolete ; 
ovary glabrous. . 86. 
Spikelets several- flowered, ‘both glumes pre- 
sent; ovary hirsute. . . pte 
Spikelets shortly pedicellate. . . yee 
Spikelets placed in threes at each joint of the 
TCO er ONE I idedaoe Goat . 89. 
Trine 1. Panicea. 
SUBTRIBE 1. HUPANICE®. 
1. PASPALUM, Linn. 
teil) 
Grain 3-horned, otherwise as in Bromus 81. 
swesnl mOe 
435 
K@LeERIA. 
ATROPIS. 
FrstTuca (sect. 
Schenodorus). 
. Poa. 
. ERAGROSTIS. 
BRIZA. 
FESTUCA. 
BROMUS. 
CERATOCHLOA, 
CyNOSURUS. 
83. EHRHARTA. 
NASTUS. 
MoneErMA. 
Lorium. 
TRITICUM. 
BRACHYPODIUM. 
HorpDEvumM. 
Spikelets in slender unilateral spikes, 1-flowered, not awned 
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