444, CXLII. @GRAMINEA. 
unawned. Stamens 3.—In fertile spikelets the outer glume 
is at first fleshy, becoming hardened and surrounding the 
inner, no palea to the neutral flower. Flowering glume and 
palea of female flower rather fleshy, unawned. Stamens 
effete. Fruit globose-—ees in Agrost. Bras. p.310; P. et B. 
t. 24. p. 5. 
Pretty, striking-looking grasses, generally growing in damp spots.—One 
species (C. lachryma), is cultivated occasionally, the hardened bony invo- 
lucres of which are called “ Job’s tears.” 
TripE 2. PHALARIDER. 
30. PHALARIS, Linn. 
Spikelets crowded in an ovate, oblong or cylindrical dense 
panicle, with 1 perfect flowering glume and 1-2 imperfect, 
seale-like ones below it. Outer glumes 2, equal, keeled or 
dorsally winged, 3-nerved, larger than the flowering. Flower- 
ing glume subcoriaceous, entire, pointless, 5-nerved; palea 
entire, coriaceous, half-enclosed. Grain free, compressed, not 
furrowed, enclosed in the hardened flowering glume and palea. 
—WNees, l.c. p. 5. 
2 Cape species. The common Canary-grass is a familiar example of this 
genus. 
TRIBE 3. PoacER. 
Suprrise 1, AGROSTIDER. 
31. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, awnless, in a loose or close and spike- 
like panicle. Outer glumes 2, rigid, subcarinate, mostly 1- 
nerved, the lower smaller or very small. Flowering glume 
nerveless or 1-3-nerved; palea subequal, 2-carinate. Grain 
free.—Vees, 1. c. p. 151. 
Annual or perennial grasses ; leaves slender, often rigid, with involute 
margins ; inflorescence much more rigid than in the following genera.— 
Several Cape species. 
32. AGROSTIS, Linn. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, usually in a diffuse panicle. Outer 
glumes pointless, keeled, the lower somewhat larger. Flowering 
elume shorter than .the outer, membranous, pointless or dor- 
sally awned ; palea smaller, membranous, sometimes obsolete. 
Grain free.—Wees, 1. c. p. 147, 148, 150. 
A. Bergina is a slender, pale grass of the Western district.—A. umbel- 
lulata, Trin. (Colpodium pusillum, Nees), a somewhat doubtful species, is 
