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and 4tli shorter, villous, the 3rcl with a straight dorsal 

 awn, the 4th with a bent ba.sal awn about as long as the 

 spikelet ; flowering glume and palea still smaller, mem- 

 branous ; stamens 2. 



Mount Lofty Kange. — ^Sept.-Dec. — Europe; temperat>e 

 Asia. 



12. Phal.aris, L. 



Spikelets flattened laterally, arranged in dense, spike- 

 like panicles; outer glumes subequal, longer than the flower, 

 with a winged keel, the flower accompanied at its base by 



12 short scales (barren glumes); flowering glume 

 flower with 2 unequal 



r^ed. 



Panicle cylindrical; 

 scales at base. 

 Plant annual 

 Plant perennial 



Panicle ovoid : 



at base 

 Panicle short : 



wing ... , 

 Panicle long; 



wing 



flower with 2 equal scales 



outer glume with a blunt 



outer glume with a pointed 





P. 

 P. 



minop 1 

 nodosa. 2 



canaricnsis 3 

 jJaradoxa 4 



1. Phala.ris minor, Retz. 

 Erect, glabrous annual, with a 

 slender stem and the uppermost 

 leaf with a swollen sheath ; 

 panicle oblong, whitish-green ; 

 2 outer glumes membranous, 

 nearU' twice as long as the 

 flower. with 3 broad, green 

 ner^•es, the keel extended into a 

 narrow, scarious, denticulate 

 wing : flowering glume and palea 

 villous, the latter having at base 

 1 bristle-like scale about one- 

 third the length of the flower, 

 the other scale minute. 



Roadsides and pasture. — Sept.- 

 Dec. — ^lediterranean region. 



2. P. nodosa, L. Resembles 

 the preceding, but is perennial ; 

 stem oblique and swollen at base; 

 leaves glaucous ; wing of outer 

 glumes even narrower than in 

 the preceding. Appears, to be a 

 marked variety, the typical form 

 swellings on the rootstock. 



Introduced as a good winter grass under 

 1'. coininufata, and spontaneous in places.— 

 Mediterranean region. 



Phalaris minor. 



having 2-4 tuberous 



the name of 

 Sept. - Dec— 



