536 GRAMINACEAE. [Briza. 
as long as its glume, rising from the median nerve only and soon bent 
riate. 
Maui! Ulupalakua. Perhaps not truly naturalized yet. A native of the Mediterranean 
region. — Near the same locality I have also picked a few specimens of B. an usolordet, 
Willd., an American species, with the lower empty glume 5—7-nerved, rminal 
very short; but as the grass was known to have appeared only a short time before it cannot 
be considered as naturalized. 
33. BRIZA, L. 
Spikelets mostly pendulous on the capillary branches of a diffuse pa- 
nicle, many-flowered, ovate or cordate, scare a the florets closely 
imbricate. Empty glumes subequal, rounded at t ack; the flowering 
ones roundish, entire, flattened parallel with the ache glumes, ventricose 
b : 
Paleae much smaller, ovate, flat. Lodicules ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 3. 
Ovary glabrous. Styles short, with plumose stigmas. Grain flattened, 
adherent to the palea. 
A small genus, scattered over the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
+1. B. minor, L. — Kunth. Enum. Pl. I, 372. — An erect annual, about 
1 ft. high, the slender stems naked above. Leaves glabrous, thin, linear, 
5—9‘ long. Ligule long-lanceolate, scarious. Panicle open, about 5‘ long, 
the filiform scaberulous rays single or twin at the lower nodes, dividing 
from the middle. Spikelets on long pedicels, triangular, glabrous, about 
2” high and as broad, 5—9-flowered. Empty glumes longer than t the 
oa florets, 3-nerved, boat-shaped, with rounded back. 
n the woods and high pastures of NV. Kona, Hawaii! A cxstet of the Mediterranean 
OS eh but now spread to the Cape, Brazil, Peru and Aus 
34. ARUNDO, L. 
Spikelets in large panicles, 2-to several-flowered, with long silky hairs 
on the axis and flowering glumes. Glumes thin, keeled, distant, the 2 
outer empty ones as long as the spikelet, the flowering ones bifid and 
shortly isa fe terminal one small, empty or rudimentary. Paleae 
s 3. — Tall reeds. 
A nen genus, ss distributed over the warmer regions of the world. 
1. A. Donax, L. — Kunth. Enum. Pl. I, 246. — Stems 8—16 ft. high, 
woody ae ee stiff lanceolate, long-acuminate, 1—2 ft. long oF 
more, scabrous at the margins. Ligule short hairy. Panicle oblong, 
1—2 ft. long, dense, the rays scabrous. Spikelets purplish or yellow, 
2—4-flowered. Outer empty glumes about equal, lanceolate, 3-nerv ed, 
scabrous. Flowering Asa cea Sake: ery from the base to the middle 
with silky hairs, bifid, middle nerve drawn out between the teeth 
into a short awn. axa a little shorter than their glumes. — Donax 
inaceus, Beauv. 
Of late introduction. a native of the Mediterranean regions. 
