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GBAMINB^. («RASS FAMILY.) 



3. A. autlioxautlioides, Boiss. .2 to Fig. 3^1. 

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

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

 3-4 spikelets; glumes united /or one-third their 

 length, 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 ; \\\ i wl// 



wing ciliate, tooth ciliate-fringed. ' 



1 1 Spilces tcith a cup-shaped involucre at lase. 



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

 Soc, Lond., Bot. xxiv., 440). .00 to .2; 

 root fibrous; culms geniculate, decumbent, sca- 

 bridulous. Leaves linear, scabridulous, the lower 

 cylindrical, the upper inflated. Peduncle clul- 

 shapedj expanded above into a cup-shaped, glabrous, 

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

 half diS 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, ciliate, 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-Quiab (Hauran). 



♦ * Perennials. Base of culms invested by fibrous 

 sheaths. Root-stoclc a^eeping. 



Q>, f; ^- aruiidinacciis, Poir. 2(. Subbaileh. .3 to .5; stem leafy. 

 Sheaths r>f leaves somewhat inflated, the upper much longer than lami- 

 na. ^^i]Le cylmdncal, .03 to .05 long, .008 broad, blunt at both ends; 

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

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

 pale obhque at tip, awn included or exserted - Spring -Marslw 

 places ; subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon ; interior tablelands. Seems 

 the same as A. prateii§is, L. 



fn .t.t' *^^^f r*"' ™- :i^ .3 to .5. Stem-leaves 1-3, nearly reduced 

 tn tr^} h^T.'^^Z^^^ ^^'''^'' ^^^,^^^^^^^6. Panicle spike-like, globular 

 LS V •^\i*%-02 l^^g. branches with 2-3 spikelets ; glumes free, 

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

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

 upper pale very narrow -Summer -Subalpine Lebanon, between 

 Sannin and Zahleh. ' 



i.«vn!' A' vaginatus, Wiud. if .3 to. 5. Root-leaves linear; stem- 

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

 1 anicle spike-hkc, ovate to ovate-oblong, .015 to .02 long, .013 broad 

 n.nSi''^ .T""?' S^^^^' ^''^^' oblong-lanceolate, silky-hirsute, 

 especially at keel, more or ?€« wwc?-(?na«d-atone^ ; lower pale obliquely 



Head of Alopecurus 

 involucratus. 



