PHALARIS MINOR Retz. (Link in Linnaea I. p. 9 7.) 

 Phalaris aouatica Tr. Diss. II. p. 2 5 4. (ncc Linn.') 



R.adix e culmorum basi nodulosa fibrae fasciculatae, breves, 

 simpliciusculae. 



Culmi procumbentes,, 1 — scsquipedales , ad noclos 4 — 5 lon- 

 giores brevioresve fuscescentes geniculati, teretes, striati, 

 glabri, inferne ramosi, sub thyrso tenucs demumque nudi. 



Vaginae ad basin usque fissae , internodio demum multo brevio- 

 res, superiores sensim laxiores, suprcma subclavato -in- 

 flata, sulcato - striatae, asperiusculae. Ligula tenui-mem- 

 branacea, pl. min. lacera, culmum obvolvens. 



Folia linearia vel lanceolato - linearia, attenuato - acuta, patula, 

 plana, lineas 2 — 3 lata, aut undique laevia aut margine 

 aspera, tenui - striata, nervo medio inferne vix paulo cras- 

 siori, sesquipalmaria et breviora. 



Thyrsus ovato - vel cylindraceo - oblongus, | — l^ pollicaris, 

 densus, e viridi alboque varius. 



Axis sulcato - teres, glaber, radiolis brevissimis fere a basi divi- 

 sis undique dense obsitus. Pedicelli parum hispiduli, 

 apice triquetri, spicula multo breviores. 



S-piculae oblongo - obovatae, ancipiti - compressae, imbricatae, 

 lineas 3 longae. 



Glumae chartaccae, lanceolato - naviculares, acutissimae, aequa- 

 les vel inferior paulo minor, glabrae, ad nervos, praeser- 

 tim dorsalem, fascia viridi superne notatae, trinerves : nervo 

 dorsali carinali, paulo supra basin ad apicem usque alato 

 membrana nunc pl. min. inaequalitcr crosa, nunc (rarius) 

 subintegra , satis argute denticulata ; nervis lateralibus me- 

 diam glumam percurrentibus. 



