232 CHLORIS MELYILLIAXA. 



cliloa noh. (Holcus Falls. Trlnii, et Wahlenh. iion Linnm 

 geii. et sp. pL ed. prima, iiec Schreberi iiec Gcertneri ;) quae 

 tanien facile clistinouitur ab hoc genere uti et ab Aira et 

 Arrhenatherc, glmiia cum apice pedicelli articulata et una 

 cum locusta decidua. 



^^. HiERocHLOE ALPiNA, Boem. et ScJi. S2/sf. 2, p. 515. 

 Br. in Boss voij. ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 194. {Ante, p. 17S.) 

 Bichardson in BranMins journ. p. 731. 



Holcus al])inus, Sicartz in Schrad. neue joiirn. 2, st. 2, 

 p. 45, t. 3, Waldenl). lapp. p. 31, /. 2. Svensk hot. 43S. 

 Blor. Ban. 150S. Giesecke greenl. in Brewster s Bdin. 

 encyclopt. 



67. HiEROCHLOE PAUCiFLORA, I'acemo simplici, flosculo 

 masculo superiore brevissime setigero, foliis culmi brevissi- 

 mis ; radicalibus involutis. 



Desc. (xr^;;^^?2 3-5-unciale. ^<2^2> repens. Culnn erects 

 infra foliati supra nudi, striati. Folia radicalia subulata, 

 marginibus involutis, culmo aliquoties breviora ; cidmea 

 abbreviata late subulata, marginibus inflexis, vaginis suis 

 laxiusculis multoties breviora. Bacenuis erectus, simplex 

 vel subsimplex, paucifiorus, pedicellis loevibus. Locusta 

 ovatas, acutse, triflorse. Gliirna bivalves, scariosse, ovatse, 

 concavae, acutiusculse, glaberrimse, locustam subsequantes, 

 valvula inferiore manifeste minore. Floscidi later ales 

 masculi, triandri, bivalves, chartacei, valvula inferior ovata, 

 marffinibus infra medium nudiusculis supra omnino 



con cava, 



Pi 



nudis, fiosculi superioris mox sub apice emarginatosetigera, 

 seta brevissima stricta valvulam vix superante ; fiosculi in- 

 ferioris mutica v. per-obselete setigera ; utriusque valvida 

 superior angustior, linearis, dinervis, semibifida. Flosculus 

 terminalis hermapliroditus, diander, muticus : valvula in- 

 ferior concava, quinquenervis, extra medium dorso latcri- 

 busque pilosiusculis, chartacea, fusca, apice scarioso; superior 

 linearis, hjalina, glabra, acuta, indivisa, uninervis. Lodiculce 

 2, collaterales, lanceolatae, acuminatae, hyalinae, ovario 

 longiores. Ovarium glabrum. Stijli 2. Stigmata alba, 

 dense plumosa. 



