3S CAROLUS SPEGAZZINI 



Culmi folia semper longe superantes graciles (80-250 mm alt. 

 — 0,5-0,75 mm diam.) nudi v. remote 1-2-foliati, foliis fere ad 

 vaginas tantum rcductis, glabri, obsoletissime longitrorsum siriali, 

 non scabri , nodis incrassatulis rufescentibusque . 



FoUo omnia isomorpha, capillaria, pallescentia herbacea v. 

 vix subrigidula, limbis tenuissimis semper complicato-filiformibus 

 (50-200 mm long. = 0,3-0,4 mm diam . = 0,5-0,75 mm lat . 

 apert.) teretibus v. subtrigonis rectiusculis v. subcircinatis semper 

 glabcrrimis laevibus v. obsolcte subscabridis, intus lenuiterl-3- 

 nervulosis, apice attenuatis atque subuhito-mucronatis non pun- 

 gentibus, vaginis pallidis glaberrimis sublaevibui^, oro non barbati^ 

 nec coarctatis , auriculis cum ligula ( in radicalibus subevanida ) 

 brcviter ovata, integra v. subbiioba glabra scariosula subhyalina 

 continuis . 



//?/'/o/'e5cen/i« angusta subraccmoso — spicaia <25-(i0 mm long . 

 = 5-7mmdiam.) nuda crecta interiiipta compactiuscula. raclii 

 laevifssima , ramis non v . vix subscabridis brevissimis a basi dense 

 paucispiculigeris, pedicellis (0-5 mm long.) scabridis apice non 

 V. vix subincrassatulis . 



Spicidae saepius constipatulae adpressac; glumis ovatis breviter 

 acuminato-aristulatis pallesccntibus plus minusve violascentibus 

 glaberrimis carinatulis, flosculo subduplo longioribus non nitenti- 

 bus, infera suborbiculari-ovata (3,5-4 mm long. = 2,25-2,50 

 mm lat.) sub-5-nervi, nervis latei-atibus valdc abbreviatis, supe- 

 ram ovato-lanceolatam 3-nervem (3-3,5 mm long. = l,25-l , 

 50 mm lat.) parum superante; flosculis subdimidiato-lenticulari- 

 bus V. semiglobosis , compressis , faciebus sat convexis (cum ;\n- 

 thopodio et arista 7-8 mm long.=cum anthopodio et corona 1 ,50 

 -1,75 mm long. = l-l,15 mm lat. =0,5-0,8 mm crass.)' 

 glumella infera primo pallescenti-rufescente dein obscure atro- 

 castanea glabra, tenuiter longitrosum sfriolata ad maturitatem ni- 



