356 CLXXTII. GRAMINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fe&tuca, 0. Stapf. 



5-nerved, tip and margins broadly hyaline ; palea oblong acute or sub 2-dentate ; 

 keels scalirid. Lodicules obliquely ovate, sometimes 2-lobed. Anthers f-| in., 

 linear, reduced and empty in the fern. fl. Ovary pyriform, top slightly oblique, 

 hispidulous; styles very short, sub term inal ; stigmas in., plumose, more or less 

 filiform in the male fl. Grain ^ in., linear-oblong, quite free, dorsally subconvex, 

 ventrally flat, hilum reaching rather above the middle. 



Sect. II. VULPIA. Annuals (the Indian species). Spikelets subsecund 

 in spiciform or racemiform panicles ; pedicels clavate, often very short. 

 Glumes divergent, I minute or 0, II mucVi shorter than the flg., long- 

 awned. Stamens 1-3 ; anthers very short. Ovary glabrous. Grain linear, 

 adherent to the palea. 



16. P. IVIyuros, Linn. Sp. PL 74 ; panicle elongate branched below 

 base usually embraced by the upper sheath, pedicels half the length of 

 gl. II or longer, gl. I minute, flg. gls. 5-8 as long as their awns, stamens 

 1-3. Host Gram. Austr. ii. 66, t. 93; EnyL Bot. t. 1412; Knapp Gram. 

 Britt.i. 70; Kunth Enum. PL i. 396, Suppl. 330; Ledeb. Fl. Ho*s. iv. 

 349. F. Psendoinyuros, Soyer Willem. in Ann. Sc. Kat. Per. I. vii. (1826) 

 445. ?F. uniglumis, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 73 (non Soland.). 

 Vulpia Myuros, Gmel. FL Bad. i. 215 ; Eeichh. Ic. FL Germ. i. t. 60 ; 

 C. Koch in Livnsea, xxi. (1848) 409 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. 

 n. 71 ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 628. V. Pseudo-myuros, Reichb. Fl. Germ. 

 Excurs. 37. Mygalurus caudatus, Link Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 92. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 5-9000 ft. WESTERN 

 TIBET, alt. 9-12,000 ft. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia. 



Stem 6-18 in., very slender, leafy, glabrous. Leaves setaceous, upper with rather 

 tumid grooved sheaths embracing the base of the pnnicle ; ligule short, biauricled. 

 Panicle 4-10 in., strict or flexuous, glabrous or puberulour., rachis and branches 

 smooth or scaberulous, lower branches appressed, upper very short. Spikelets with 

 the awns ^-f in. ; rachilla smooth or ciliolate ; gls. I and II subulate ; flg. smooth 

 or more or less scaberulous, nerves obscure. I have seen no specimen of .F. uniglumis, 

 Solaud. from India, and suspect Grisebach's plant to be E. Myuros. 



Sect. III. NAEDUE.TJS, Reichb. (Gen.). Spikelets spicate, solitary, sessile 

 on the joints of the rachis or with very short flat pedicels. Glumes diver- 

 gent, equal or unequal ; flg. gls. awned or not. Stamens 3, anthers minute. 

 Ovary glabrous. Grain oblong or subpyriform, obtuse, ventrally concave, 

 glabrous, adherent to the palea. 



17. F. tenuiflora, Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 345 ; leaves very short fili- 

 form subflexuous convolute, spike simple, spikelets secund sessile 3-7-fld., 

 gls. I = ^ II linear-subulate acuminate keeled, flg. gls. linear-lanceolate 

 mucronate or shortly awned smooth or hispidulous. Kunth Enum. PL i. 

 395, Suppl. 330. F. maritima, Linn. Sp. PL 75. Nardurus tenuiflorus, 

 Boiss. Voy. Bot. Espan. ii. 667, FL Orient, v. 632. N. unilateral^, Fries 

 ex Linnsea, xxix. (1857-8) 730 ; Fourn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xiii. (1866) 181. 

 Catapodium unilaterale, Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 347. Triticum 

 hispanicum, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 479. T. maritiraum, Willd. I.e. (in Syn.}. T. 

 Nardua, DC. Fl. Franc, iii. 87. T. tenellum, Vie. Ann. Bot. i. II. 154; 

 Host Gram. Austr. ii. 20, t. 86 (excl. Syn.). T. nnilaterale, Linn. Mant. 

 i. 35. Brachy podium tenuiflorum & tenellum, Roem. So Sch. Syst. ii. 745 

 (ex Kunth}. 



KASHMIR ; near Siriuagur, alt. 5-6000 ft., Duthie. DISTRIB. Westwd. to Spain. 

 Steins 3-16 in., tufted, slender, wiry erect, strict or curved, smoofh. Leaves 



