P A i I C U M PLATYCARPHUM Tr. 



Act. Pelrop. 1834. Tom. III. p. 198. 



Radix fibrae fasciculatae ramulosae el flexuosae. 



Culmi dense caespitosi, adscendendo-erecti , circiler dodrantales, sim- 

 plices, inferne plurinodes, foliifero-ramosi et. densissime foliosi, 

 supcrne infra racemos longe nudi, tenues, teretes, glabri. 



Vaginae totae fissae, imbricalae, carinalae, laxiusculae, internodio 

 longiores, lamina breviores, glabrae. Ligula membranacea, bre- 

 vis, lacera, utrirlque brevi-auriculala. 



Folia plurima et confertissima, patula, firma, lanceolato-linearia, sub- 

 pungendo-acuminata, plana, latiora lineam cum dimidia 1. lineas 

 2 lata, glabra aut pilis raris adspersa, subaequalia, pl. min. sesqui- 

 pollicaria. 



Racemi lerminales 2 — 3, digitati, contracti, fere pollicares. Axis 

 partialis subfoliaceus, glaber, lineam fere latus, spiculis latior, 

 dorso convexiusculus, fronte ad septum medium pro recipiendis 

 spiculis utrinque scrobiculatus. 



Spiculae unilaterales, solitariae, sessiles, allernae, biseriales, lanceo- 

 lalo-ellipticae, depressae, aculiusculae, ad margines pubescendo- 

 villosulae, linea longiores. 



Gluma inferior nulla; superior minuta, rotundato-ovata, quasi in fim- 

 brias soluta. 



Flosculi 2, paralleli: exterior neuter, chartaceo-membranaceus, i- 

 valvis, dorso depressus, 7-nervis, marginibus pubescendo-villosu- 

 lis amplectens interiorem liermaphroditum, aequilongum 1. nonni- 

 hil longiorem, chartaceum, albentem, laevem: l alv. inferwr ob- 

 scure 3-nervis, convexiuscula; superior aequilonga 1. paulo exce- 

 dens, marginibus conduplicatis. 



