ORAMiNBLE Polypogon, 



POLYPOGON (Desf. Fl. Atl. I. p. 66). 



SpicuUc uniflorffi a latere compressae flosculo hermaphrodito sessili. 

 Glumfe hinx flosculo multo longiores membranaceee carinalse paulo 

 infra apiccm indivisum vel bilobum aristatee. Glumella sub apice 

 truncato-denticulato aristata vel mutica,palea minor bicarinata. Squa- 

 mulje biiicT. Styli 2 terminales brevissimi. Stigmata pilis dentatis 

 pluraosa ad basin spicuke emergentia. Caryopsis obovata macuia 

 hilari lineari-oblonga glumellis inclusa sed libera. — Herbse annuae 

 et perennes spiculis minulis in paniculam contractam spiclformera 

 congestis. 



1. P. Monspeliense (L. Sp. 89 sub Alopecuro) annuura, cul- 

 mis foliosis erectis vel geniculato-ascendentibus,foliis linearibus viri- 

 dibus planis, ligula lanceolata erosa, panicula spiciformi dens4 

 oblongii interdum lobulata, glurais tequalibus pubescenti-scabris 

 margiue ciliolalis oblongis infra apicem obtusum integrum aristel 

 tenui eis triplo longiori instructis, glumella glumis dimidio breviore 

 apice quadridenlata breviter aristata©. P. Monspeliense Desf. 1. cit. 

 — Rchb. Germ. fig. 170. — Agrostis panicea Host Austr. tab. 46.— 

 Phleum crinitum Schveh. Grara. I, p. 151. — Flora Grsec. tab. 62. 



Hab. in arenosis huraidis prfesertim maritimis totius ditionis a Grsecia ! et 

 insulis, Macedoiiia! ad Egyptum! ejus Oases (Aschl) et desertum Arabicum 

 (Schweinfl). lJaljyloniaui(NoeI),Transcaucasiam!Persiam australem inmon- 

 tibus Kuli Nur 7000' (Haussk!) et Sabst Buschom (Ky.444!), Affghaniam 

 (GrifT! Aitch!). 



Ar. Geogr. Brilannia, Gallia occidentalis et australis, regio mediterranea 

 totius Europre et Africae. borealis, Abyssinia, India, Japonia, P. B. Spei, 

 insulu) Ganarienses et Madera, America borealis et austi'aUs, Tasmania. 



2. P. maritimum (Willd. Nov. Act. Nat. Cnr. III, p. 443) 

 annunm, cuhnis foliosis erectis vel geniculato-ascendentibus, foliis 

 linearibus viridibus planis, ligula ianceolata erosa, panicula spici- 

 formi oblohga densa, glumis aequalibus dorso inferius squamulis 

 argenteis exasperatis margine ciliatis oblongo-cuneiformibus bifidis e 

 sinu arisla eis quadruplo iongiore instructis, glumella glumis triplo 

 breviore apice quadridentata mutica O-Guss. Pl.rar.tab. 5, fig. 2. 



Hab. in arenosis prffisertim maritimis, rarius in interioribus, Insulae loniffif 

 Pelopojinesus (l^ory I\ Attica (Heldr !), insula Syra (Weiss!), Greta in mari- 

 timis et in montibus Sphacioticis ad Onialo 3500' (Heldr! Raul !), Byzantii 

 (ex Trin.), Uhodo (Bourg !), Smyrnae (Bal.142!), ad Pylas Cilicicas (Bal I), 

 Syriil litlorali ad Sidonem (Bl!), Egypto ad Rosette (Husson !), Turcomania 

 ad Gaspium (herb. Petrop!), Affghania (Griff!), Belutschia (Stocks !). 



/3. lonfjipes. — Pedicelli articulus superior inferiore longior nec 

 sequilongus vel brevior. — P. subspathaceum Req. — Forrase inler- 

 luedise adsunt. 



