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Chloridion might be described as a Digitaria in which the lower 
collateral scales z';-,!, lin. long. A similar apie of the glumes and 
the lower foe: occurs sin the section which I n oa a altars 
any other species of Digitaria, and they have distinct lodicules. The 
general appearance of the rane is strikingly like that of Chloris 
pycnothriz, Trin.—O. Strap. 
Fig. 1, spikelet, with the es oe glume at ee base; 2, the same, seen from the 
other side 38, fert . fe nee with 2 scales at the b ase, representing the 
pale of the barren - fertil ile india 5, pal ae the fertile floret ; 6, usnal 
fei ay the pale of et “Reis florst ; t pistil. il enlarged. 
