336 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Schismvs. 



at the base ; rachilla elongate, jointed at the base and between the flg. gls. 

 Glumes 6-10; I and II large, empty, subequal, lanceolate, acute, concave, 

 persistent, herbaceous, margins scarious, I broadest, 5-7-nerved; IT. 

 3-nerved ; fig. gls. much shorter, oblong or obovate, 2-fid, many-nerved, 

 mucronate or not between the hyaline lobes ; palea spathulate with 2 

 submarginal diverging basal nerves. Lodicules 2, hyaline, truncate. 

 Stamens 3, anthers minute. Styles terminal, long, stigmas plumose. 

 Grain minute, broadly obovoid, compressed, free. Species 2 or 3, Europ. 

 Asia, N. Africa. 



S. margin at us, Beauv. Agrost. 74, t. 15, f. 4 ; Kuntk Enum. PI. 

 i. 385, Suppl. 318, t. 28, f. 2 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 403 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 39. S. calycinus, C. Koc.h in Linnsea xxi. (1848) 397 ; Coss. & Dur. 

 Expl. Sc. Alger. 138, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. iv. (1857) 399; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, v. 599. S. hirsutus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 148. Festuca calycina, 

 'Loefl. It. Sispan. 116 ; Gav. Ic. i. 88, t. 44, f. 2 ; Lamk. Illustr. t. 46, f . 5. 

 Koeleria calycina, DC. & Duby. Bot. Gall. Suppl. 271. Hemisacris gona- 

 todes, Steud. in Flora, xii. (1829) 490. Electra calycina & nitida, Panz. in 

 JHfuench. Denkschr. iv. (1813) 299 cum Ic. Trisetum Loeflingianum, 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 31 (non Beauv.). Griff. Notul. 96 (gramen 

 pusillum, &c.), Ic. PL Asiat. t. 154, f. ii. 



UPPER PUNJAB; Peshawur, Stewart. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 9-11,000 ft., 

 Nubra and Dras, Thomson, Iskardo, Clarke. DISTRIB. Westwd. to the N. Atlantic, 

 N. Asia. 



Stems 2-8 in., densely tufted, filiform. Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy, T ^ in. 

 broad ; ligule of hairs. Panicle 1^-2 in., green, glistening, pedicels scabrid. S^iTce- 

 leis i in. ; gl. I and II glabrous ; flg. gls. hairy, cleft to about of their length ; 

 lobes ovate, acute. 



117. BRIZA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial erect grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spike- 

 lets many-fid., laterally compressed, pendulous, in lax rarely contracted or 

 spiciform panicles not jointed on the pedicel ; rachilla jointed at the base. 

 Glumes many, scarious, cymbiform or saccate, closely imbricate ; I and II 

 subequal, empty, 3-5-nerved, persistent ; fl. gls. broader, obtuse acute or 

 shortly awned, 5- or more-nerved, terminal often empty or imperfect; 

 palea often small, broad, flat, hyaline, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate. Stamens 3. Styles ,free. Grain ovoid, dorsally compressed, 

 closely invested by the palea. Species about 10, of temperate regions. 



S. maxima, Linn., has been found as an escape in several parts of India. It may 

 be recognized by the very large spikelets. B. minor, L., with very small spikelets 

 may be also expected to occur. 



B. media, Linn. Sp. PI. 70 ; perennial, panicle erect, branches 

 spreading, spikelets ovate 5-9-fld., gl. I and II shorter than III. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 258 ; Host Gram.Austr. ii. t. 29; Knapp. Gram. Britt. t. 60; JSngl. Bot. 

 t. 340; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 291 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 92; T. Nees 

 Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 59 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 371, Suppl. 307, t. 

 25, f . 2 ; Ledeb. FL ftoss. iv. 365 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 592 ; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 39. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, and WESTERN TIBEJ, alt. 

 9-13,000 ft. SIKKIM, at G-natong, Cummins. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia. (An 

 aliuu elsewhere.) 



