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GRAMINE^. («RASS FAMILY.) 



3. A. aiithoxantlioides, Boiss. © .2 to Fig. 381. 

 .35, tufted, glabrous. Panicle ovate-oUong, to ob- 

 long, .03 to .035 long, .01 broad; branches with 

 3-4 spikelets; glumes united for one-third their 

 lengthy lanceolate, acute, hispid at base, and 'along 

 keel, narrowly winged or wingless ; the single pale 

 with jointed awn, nearly thrice its length — Spring 

 — Fields and grassy places to middle and subal- 

 pine mountain zones. 



Var. alatu§. Post. Glumes with a broad 

 wing, abruptly truncate-toothed below the apex ; 

 wing ciliate, tooth ciliate-fringed. 



1 1 Spihes with a cup-shaped involucre at hase. 



4. A. involucratas, Post. (Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Lond,, Bot. xxiv., 440). .06 to .2; 

 root fibrous; culms geniculate, decumbent, sca- 

 bridulous. Leaves linear, scabridulous, the lower 

 cylindrical, the upper inflated. Peduncle clul- 

 shaped, expanded above into a cup-shaped, glabrous, 

 scarious, paralleled-nerved involucre, one-third to one- 

 half d^s, long as the ovate to oblong, .008 to .02 

 long, .005 to .01 broad, spike-like panicle ; 

 branches of panicle 1-flowered; glumes scarious, 

 connate nearly to middle, cihate, especially along 

 keel, oblong, mucronate, wingless; the single pale a 

 little shorter than glumes, with an awn twice its 

 length springing from its base — Spring — Grassy 

 places; Jaffa; Judaideh (Antilebanon) ; base of 

 Jebel-Qul8b (Hauran). 

 * * Perennials. Base of culms invested by fibrous 



sheaths. Moot-stocTc a^eeping. 



5. A. aruiiclinaceu§, Poir. If Subbaileh. 

 Sheaths of leaves somewhat inflated, the upper much longer than lami- 

 na. Spike cylindrical, .03 to .05 long, .008 broad, blunt at both ends; 

 branches with 3-4 spikelets; glumes united for one-fourth their length, 

 oblique at tip, acutish, long-villous, especially along the keel; single 

 pale oblique at tip, awn included or exserted — Spring — Marshy 

 places; subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon; interior tablelands. Seems 

 the same as A. prateiisi§, L. 



6. A. Oerardi, Vill. 2f .3 to .5. Stem-leaves 1-3, nearly reduced 

 to sheaths; root-leaves linear, acuminate. Panicle spike-like, globular 

 to ovate, .013 to .02 long, branches with 2-3 spikelets ; glumes free, 

 lanceolate, obliquely tapering-aristate, ciliate at keel ; lower paLe oblique- 

 ly truncate, obtuse, with a straight, included aion shorter than itself ; 

 upper pale very narrow — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon, between 

 Sannin and Zahleh. 



T. A. vagiiiatus, "Willd. 2f .3 to. 5. Root-leaves linear; stem- 

 leaves 1-2, reduced to inflated, cuspidate or short-limbed sheaths. 

 Panicle spike-like, ovate to ovate-oblong, .015 to .02 long,^ .013_broad 

 (excluding awns) ; glumes free, oblong-lanceolate, silky-hij'sute, 

 especially at keel, more or less mucronate-awned ; lower pale obliquely 



Head of Alopecurus 

 involucratus. 



to . 5 ; stem leafy. 



