57. GRAMTXE.^. 



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flowering glume rather shorter, almost circular, minutely 

 pitte<l under lens. 



Grown as a fodder grass and spontaneous in moist 

 places. — Dec.-Apl. — Argentina, Uruguay. 



3. Chloris, Swartz. 

 (Greek chloros, pale-green.) 



1. Chloris gSLya.nsL, Kixnth. lihodes-grass. Erect 

 perennial, with creeping rootstock ; ligule ciliate with long 

 hairs ; spikes suhdigitate, 8-18, 

 suberect, o-lO cm. (2-4 in.) long; 

 spikelets crowded, sessile in 2 

 rows on one side of the slender 

 axis: outer glumes 2, unequal; 

 lowest flower of .spikelet bi- 

 sexual, flowering glume notched, 

 ciliate on the marginal nerves 

 'and with a long beard on the 

 edge near the summit, awn 

 shorter than or as long as glume 

 rising from the notch ; 2na 

 flower male, glabrous, awned, 

 shortly stalked ; 3rd flower on a^ 

 rather long stalk, minute, con- 

 sisting of a broad-truncate awn- 

 less flowering glume, empty or 

 rarely with 3 stamens and a 

 palea. 



Introduced of late years for 

 pasture, and spontaneous in 

 places : said to be a good sand- 

 binder. — Dec.-Apl. South Africa 

 (Transvaal). 



('. tnnuafa, 1\. ih.. a far-northern and east-Australian 

 native grass, is now common along the Grange Railway. 

 It has 7-10 slender, spreading, digitate spikes, 10-15 cm. 

 (4-6 in.) long; lowest flower bisexual, upper shortly stalked, 

 barren, both with truncate flowering glumes and awns 

 more than 4 times their length. 



('unodon Dncti/Ioii, Richard. Couch-grass (Australia); 

 Bei'niuda-grass (North America). This well-known lawn- 

 gras-s. with ascending stems and 4-6 slender, digitate, 

 purplish spikes, was found by early explorers so widely dis- 

 persed in the moist parts of Australia that it has been 

 accepted as native. Almost cosmopolitan. Not the Couch- 

 gra,ss of England, which is Agropyrum repeiis, P.B. 



4. Stenotaphrum, Trinius. 



(Greek stoios. narrow, taphros, a trench; alluding to the 

 excavations of the axis.) 

 1. Stenotaphrum a.mericanum, Schrank^ 



Chloris g-ayana. 



