ANTHOXANTHUM OVATUM Lag. gen. et sp. pl 



R. et S. I. p. 583. 



Radix annua : e nodulo baseos culmi fibrae breves, fasciculatae, 

 albae. 



C u l m i (plures ex eadem radice) spithamaei — pedales erecti, te- 

 retes aut subangulati, tenues, superne filiformes, glaberrimi, 

 triarticulati, ad articulos plus minus geniculati et ad infunos 

 ramosi , sub panicula pierumque longe nudi. 



Vaginae striatae, glabrae, ad basin usque fissae, a basi sensim 

 laxiores, medio tumidae , intemodio breviores. Ligula ob- 

 longa, oblique truncata , lineam longa, exserta , vaginans, 



Folia patula, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, plana, pro statura plan- 

 tae sesquipalmaria, digitalia, pollicaria , lineas i — 4. lata, 

 obsolete striata, nervo niedio vix evidentiori, asperula, niar- 

 gine ciliata : culmea sensim brevioia. 



Pajticula ovata vel oblonga, thyrsiformis, semi-vel ultra -pol- 

 licaris , densa , ex albo viridique varia. 



A x 1 s teres , glaber , 6-12- parus. 



R a d 1 1 terni , brevissimi , subdivisi : Pedicelli pilosuli. 



S p 1 c u l a e lineari-Ianceolatae, lineas 5 longae , non prorsus li- 

 neam latae, triflorae. 



G l u m a e membranaceae oblongo - lanceolatae, e nervo dorsali 

 acuminatae, undique, plus minus dense , praesertim dorso, 

 pilis brevioribus longioribusque obsitae : inferior duplo brevior, 

 diaphana , alba , uninervia ; superior viridior , trhiervia. 



Flosculi tres , membranacei, minimi : duo neutri oppositi, 

 aequales, gluma superiore quater quinquiesve breviores, uni- 

 valves, lineari - oblongi, truncati, emarginati, fere ad apicem 

 usque piiis albis rectis hirsuti : inferfor trinervius, infra api- 

 cem exserens setam rectam ipso duplo longiorem ; superinr 

 subquinquenervius, supra basin aristatus : arista ipsa valvula 



