Fig. 388. 



866 GEAMINE^. (grass TAMIL Y.) 



♦ * Lower pale awned. Rudimentary jloweret a stalk and single ^^ale. 



3, A. iiiterriipta, L. Wind-Grass. .25 to .5, erect, slender. 

 Leaves linear, .05 to .15 long. Panicle oblong-lanceolate, .1 to .15 

 long, contracted, branches Avliorled, bearing spikelets almost to base ; 

 glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute; lower pale about as long as glume, 

 acute, asperidoiis, with'a slender, flexuous awn below its tip, four times 

 its length -- May and June — Fields; Jedaideh (Antilebanon). 

 34. POtiYPOGO^, Desf. Beard-Grass. 



Spikelets l-flowejcd, laterally compressed, the floweret perfect, 

 sessile. Glumes much longer than floweret, membranous, keeled, aw ned 

 a little below the undivided or bilobed tip. Lower pale awued below 

 the truncate-denticulate tip, or muticous, the upper smaller, 2-keeled. 

 Styles 3, terminal, very short; stigmas plumose with dentate hairs — 

 (Ours) annuals, with minute spikelets, in a very contracted panicle 

 or spike. 



^1». mo)i§pelieiise, L. © Bheil-eth-tha^lel. 

 Sar-el-Fdr. Dheil-el-Fdr. Dheneb-el-Fdr. .3 to. 8. 

 Panicle dense, .06 to .15 long, .02 to .035 thick, more 

 or less interrupted ; glumes equal, scah'0us-2yubescent, 

 ciliate-margined, oblong, apex obtuse, entire; awn 

 thrice as long as glume; lower pale half as long as 

 glume, 4-toothed and sliort-aicned — April to July — 

 Moist, sandy places; common. 



2. P. mariUmum, Willd. .05 to. 2. Pani- 

 cle spike-like, oblong, .01 to .04 long, .008 to .01 

 thick ; glumes equal, tlie lack leset with silvery scales 

 ielow, ciliate-margined, oblong-cuneate, hi/id, the aicn 

 arising from the sinus, four times as long as glume; 

 lower pale one-third as long as glume, apex 4-toothecl, 

 muticous — Spring — Sands ; coast ; damp woods at«. Spikeietof Poiypogon 

 base of Cassius; Jordan Valley. 'flow:?:t"''"5diaL?er 



35. OASTRIDIUITI, P. de B. Gastridium. Kit-Grass. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, perfect, laterally compressed, the floweret 

 sessile. Glumes membranous, keeled, acute, usually inflated at base, 

 much longer than floweret. Pales membranous, minute, the lower 

 broader, truncate-denticulate or witli 2 bristles, furnished with a geni- 

 culate or muticous awn, inserted below apex or at base. Styles 2, short; 

 stigmas plumose — Annuals, with aspect of Phleum or Koeleria. Leaves 



L. .3 to .4. Panicle spike-like, tapering 

 at both ends, .05 to .1 long, .006 to .008 broad, looser in flower, con- 

 tracted in fruit; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, scalrous at leel, othencise 

 glabrous, glossy, the upper shorter; lower 2^<^lc hirsute, truncafe-dentate 

 at tip, usually with an awn under tij) longer than glume, rarely muticous 

 — Spring — Grassy places; coast; Antilebanon; Banias. 



2. Cr. §cabrum, Presl. Subbeileh. .2. Spike .04 to .05 long, 

 .003 to .004 thick; glumes scalrous over outer surface, lanceolate, acute, 

 the upper somewhat shorter; lower pale 7iearly glahvus, truncate-den- 

 tate at tip, usually not awned — June and July — Fields; coast to mid- 

 dle zone of Lebanon. 



