GRl-MINEiK, (GRASS FAMILY.) 



855 



Fig. 376. 



Head of Anthistiria ciliata, the perfect 

 flowerets having dropped out. 



tip; terminal spikelets pedicel- 

 led, abortive, subulate — June 

 and July — Thickets ; coast to 

 middle mountain zones. 



19. PHAL.ARIS, L, Canary- 

 Grass. 



Spikelets crowded in a dense- 

 ly spiked panicle, fertile, or by 

 abortion sterile, -vvith one perfect, 

 sessile floweret in each, and 1-2, 

 neutral flowerets reduced to a line- 

 ar pale. Glumes boat-shaped, keel- 

 ed. Pales smaller than glumes, 

 the lower enclosing the upper. 

 Stamens 3. Caryopsis oblong, 

 flattened, free — Annuals or per- 

 ennials. 



* Glumes winged at hack. Spikelets 

 coji'bex without, concave within. 



t Annuals. Perfect flowerets villous. 



1. P. Canariensis, L. Canary Grass .3 to .6; panicle ovate to 

 oblong, .025 to .04 long, dense; glumes white-margined, semi-ovate, 

 wing entire; neutral flowerets 2, ciliated, half as Fm. 377. 

 long as fertile — Spring — Fields ; escaped from 

 cultivation. 



2. P. I>racliystacliy§, Link. © .3 to .6; 

 panicle ovate-oblong, .02 to .03 long, dense; 

 glumes half-oblong, white-margined ; keel with 

 entire wing ; neutral flowerets 2, glabrous, many times 

 shorter than fertile — Spring — Fields ; coast to 

 1500 m. Too near the last. 



3. P. minor, Retz. © .15 to .3; panicle 

 spike-like, ovate-oblong, .015 to .03 long; glumes 

 white margined; keel with fringed-toothed icing; 

 sterile floicer one, linear, villous, one-third to one-half 

 as long as fertile — Spring— Fields and w^ay sides; 

 coast to 1500 m. ; borders of et-Tih ; interior 

 plains ; Jordan Valley. 



t t Animals. Perfect flowerets glossy. 



4. P. paradoxa, L. .2 to .4; panicle cylindrical, .03 to .05 

 long, .01 to .015 broad, tapering at base; branches with 5-6 spikelets, 

 central spikelet of cluster only fertile, 2-4 times as long as the lateral; 

 the neutral spikelets on the lower h'anches generally rudimentary, wedge- 

 shaped, ohtuse, destitute of glumes and pales ; fertile glumes furnished 

 with a tooth-like wing below the beak-like awn — Spring — Fields and 

 roadsides; common. 



Var. praelnorsa, Boiss. All the spikelets except the fertile, 

 neuter, truncate, mucronulate, wedge-shaped — Shading ofl to type. 



1 1 1 Perennials. Glumes with narrow 



Spike of Phalaris 

 Canariensis. 



