Dacfylis."] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



subcompressed, ventrally channelled, glabrous. Species few, Europe temp. 

 Asia and Africa. 



D. glomerata, Linn. Sp. PL 86; leaves keeled, sheaths compressed, 

 ligule long laciniate, panicle erect or inclined, branches short or the 

 lower long erecto-patent naked below, spikelets 3-5-fld., keels of fig. gls. 

 ciliate-scabrid. Beauv. Agrost. 85, t. 17, f. 5; Fl. Dan. t. 743; Host 

 Gram. Austr. ii. 67, t. 94; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 386, SuppL 320, t. 29, f. I ; 

 Engl. Bot. t. 335 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 62 ; Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 59 

 (excl. f. 1520) ; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot. i. n. 65; Webb. Phytog. 

 Canar. t. 249 ; Wail. Cat. n. 8899 ; Dwthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 39 ; Ledeb. 

 FL Ross, iv. 355; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 596. Fesluca glomerata, All. FL 

 Pedem. ii. 252. 



NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA from Kashmir to Kumaon, and WESTERN TIBET, 

 alt. 8-10,000 ft DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, W. and N. Asia (an alien else- 

 where). 



Stem 2-3 ft. from a short creeping stock, smooth. Leaves subglaucous, glabrous 

 or hairy towards the base, margins scabrid ; sheath much flattened or 2-edged. 

 Panicle 1-6 iu., strict, green or purplish ; lower branches sometimes 2-3 in. long. 

 Spikelets -^ in., ovate ; gls. I and II pale with green nerves, subaristately acu- 

 minate, terminal flg. gl. sterile. There are many synonyms of this common variable 

 European plant, but the whole genus must be studied before the species can be 

 disentangled. 



115. SCLEROCHLOA, Beauv. 



A small annual prostrate grass. Spikelets minute, 3-6-nd., compressed, 

 biseriately crowded on the branches of a secund subspiciform panicle; 

 rachilla thickened under the flg. gls. Glumes 5-8; I and II very unequal, 

 membranous, concave, emarginate, empty, persistent, I 3-nerved ; II 5-8- 

 nerved, unequal-sided; fl. gls. larger, complicate, keeled, strongly 5-nerved, 

 tip obtuse, margins hyaline ; palea hyaline, 2-fid, keels spinulosely ciliate. 

 Lodicules 2, hyaline, ovate, 2-4-toothed. Stamens 3. Styles short, free, 

 stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, free, subconcavo-convex, glabrous, tip 

 2-tid. 



S. dura, Beauv. Agrost. 98, t. 14, f. 4 ; Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 58 ; 

 Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 367 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 635 ; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. 

 (1863) 293. Poa dura, Scop. Fl. Cam. i. 70 ; Host Gram. Austr. ii. 53, t. 73. 

 desleria dura, Kunth Rems. Gram. i. 110, Enum. PL i. 323, SuppL 278. 

 Oynosurus durus, Linn. Sp. PL 72; Pollich Hist. PalaL i. 98, Fig. 1. 

 JSleusme dura, Lamk. Illust. i. 203. Festuca dura, Vill. Hist. PL Daup/i. 

 ii. 94. Amblychloa dura, Link in Linnsea, xvii. (1843) 399. 



Kashmir Valley, alt. 5000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia. 



Stems 4-6 in., tufted, compressed, leafy throughout. Leaves linear, acute ; 

 sheath open; ligule oblong. Panicle 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, rigid, green; pedicels 

 very short, stout, trigonous. Spikelets -* in., spreading or appressed to the rachis; 

 gl. I ovate-oblong, obtuse, keeled, margins hyaline ; II twice as long ; flg. gls. 

 uvate-oblong, herbaceous, compressed above ; palea shorter, oblong. 



116. SCHISTOUS, Beauv. 



Small annual grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets many-fld., in a sub- 

 spiciform panicle, with very short erect branches and pedicels, not jointed 



