GRAMINE^. (GRASS FAMILY.) 877 



linear, flat, acuminate. Panicle oblong, iit len gth golde?i or flaxen-colored^ 

 .03 to .07 long, .01 to .02 broad, branches nodding, hispid, bearing 3- 

 4 spikelets on clustered, capillary pendulous pedicels, one fertile with 

 two awns, the others sterile, muticous, shorter than awns; sterile spikelets 

 01. long, four times as long as their glumes; sterile lower pales obovate, 

 eroded-denticulate, scarious — Spring — Sandy fields and roadsides; 

 common. 



60. CYNOSURUS, L. Dog's Tail Grass. 

 Spikelets laterally flattened, short-pedicelled, some fertile, 2-5- 

 flowered, others sterile, many-flowered, the flowerets reduced to linear- 

 lanceolate, lower pales; all the spikelets arranged in a one-sided, spike- 

 like or capitate panicle. Glumes scarious, keeled, nearly equal. Lower 

 pales 3-5-nerved, not keeled, 2-toothed at apex, mucrouate, or awned; 

 upper pales 2-keeled, bifid. (Ours) Annuals. 



C. ccliiiiatus, L. .2 to .4. Panicle densely capitate, ovate- 

 oblong, with short branches ; fertile spikelets 2-flowered ; glumes lan- 

 ceolate^ subulate at tiiJ, once and a half as long as floweret; awns of fer- 

 tile lower pale two or three times its length; lower pales of sterile spike- 

 lets 2-ranked ; awns of lower ones a little longer than x>ale, all lilac- 

 purple or flave&cejit — Fields and roadsides; common. 



2. C. callitricliiis, W. Barbey. .15 to .3. Panicle ovate, 

 densely capitate, with short branches; fertile spikelets 1-floicered ; 

 glumes lanceolate, Ung-subulate^ nearly twice as long as floweret; awn 

 of fertile lower pale 8-10-tmes its length ; sterile pales i^ot 2-ranlccd, hut 

 so7neiDhat spirally arranged ; lower awns 5-8 times as long as ])2}es, all 

 violet-purple — Spring — Dry places; Doheriyeh; Templearea at Jerusalem, 

 Moab; Gilead; Nazareth; Damascus. 



3. C.-elcg'ani, Desf. .15 to A, culms slender, naked above. 

 Panicle ovate-oblong, one-sided, more open than 1 and 2, branches 

 several times bifurcated, rather long; fertile spikelets one- to tiro- 

 fiowered ; the others either all sterile, or bearing fertile flowerets at sum- 

 mit ; glumes lanceolate at base, gradually tapering into an awl-shaped 

 tip, longer than pale ; awn of fertile pale 3-4 times its length ; lower 

 awns 3-5 times as long as sterile pales, all straw-colored — Spring — Dry 

 places; coast to middle mountain zones. 



61. KCELERIA, Pers. Kceleria. 



Spikelets compressed laterally, 2-5-flowered, the upper flowerets 

 stipitate, all perfect orthe uppermost tabescent. Glumes keeled, acutely, 

 1-3-nerved, as long as the flowerets or shorter. Lower pale keeled, 3- 

 nerved, generally 2-toothed, usually furnished with a short, straight 

 awn between the teeth — (Ours) Annuals ; panicle spiked. 



1. K. plilcoides, Vill. .3 to .4; culms numerous, erect or 

 ascending. Leaves soft, hairy, flat, linear. Panicle sometimes lobu- 

 lated; loicer glume somewhat shorter and narroicer than upper; awn 

 usually much shorter than glabrous or puberulent pale, almost on up- 

 per pales — Spring — Fields and waysides; common. 



Var. long[e-ari§tata, Post. Spikes .04 to .07 long, .008 to .01 

 broad; awns nearly or quite as long as lower pale — BeirQt; Lebanon. 



Var. graiidiflora, Boiss. Spike .05 to .08 long, .015 to .02 



