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nearly 3 in. long ; leaf-blades 1 jl to 4 in. long by 1 to 2 lines 

 broad. Panicles 5 to 1\ in. long, generally between \ and -l in. 

 in diameter, branches rarely reaching 1 in. in length, ascending, 

 the greater number bearing only 3 or 2 spikelets, reduced near 

 the top of the rhachis to single spikelets. Spikelets 3 to 5 lines- 

 long, 3 or barely 3 lines broad at the base ; barren glumes some- 

 times tinged with purple, 1^/ to 2 lines long ; fertile If to 1-^ line 

 long and as broad ; pale If to 1^: line long by about II line broad ; 

 anthers pale brown, a little over h line long. 



Allied to E. superha Wawr. & Peyr. but with consideralilc 

 differences the most striking of which are the sessile spikelets,, 

 acute glumes, broader pales, and hairy leaves. 



HuiLLA.— Plentiful in sandy pastures grown with short thickets by 

 edges of woods at Monino ; April 1860. No. 7506. 



39. E. flavicans Welw. ms. in herb. 



A very elegant grass, annual, cosspitose, culms slender, erect 

 from a spreading ascending base, with numerous short internodes, 

 geniculate, profusely branched at the lower nodes, internodes 

 terete or subcompressed, glabrous, the lower enveloped by the 

 subcompressed leaf-slieaths, the upper exceeding them ; sheaths 

 with pilose edges and mouth, the lower sparsely scabridulously 

 pilose in the upper part ; ligule a very short dense line of hairs ; 

 blades flat, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, I'igidulous, 

 scabridulously pilose, especially on the lower face on the 5 to 7 

 prominent veins ; panicle narrowly cylindrical, closely resembling 

 that of E. cylindrispica, the glabrous rhachis bearing short 

 reduced lateral branches distichously arranged in 2 longitudinal 

 furrows ; spikelets compressed, spreading, yellowish-green, lanceo- 

 late, or ovate-lanceolate, densely 10- to 17-flowered, rhachis jointed 

 below each flower; barren ghimes equal in length and similar 

 to the fertile but narrower and acuminate, ovate, imperfectly 

 3-nerved, keel strong and scabridulous in the upper ^ to f, the 

 npper broader and a shade longer; fertile glumes orbicular-ovate, 

 shortly acute, lateral nerves prominent, keeled and minutely 

 scabridulous above the middle ; pale slightly shortei-, narrowly 

 obovate when flattened, truncate, keels membranously winged; 

 anthers yellowish ; grain reddish-brown, reticulated, ellipsoidal, 

 laterally subcompressed with prominent basilateral hilum. 



Described by Welwitsch as a very elegant plant Avhen alive, 

 remarkable not only by its yellowish spikelets, but also its 

 greenish -yellow leaves and culms. Plants 14 to 16 in. high, 

 internodes increasing in length upwards from ^ to 1^ to 21 in., 

 from ^ to over \ line thick ; ligule barely ^ line long ; leaves 1 to 

 2i in. long by 1 line or a little more broad. Panicle 3^ to 5H in. 

 long, by ^ to |- in. across, sometimes tapering slightly upwards ; 

 lowest branch to J^ in. long, often with 5 spikelets, becoming 

 reduced above to 3, 2 and finally single .spikelets. Spikelets 3 to 

 4 lines long by 2 lines or less in breadth ; barren and fertile 

 glumes 1 line long ; anthers a good \ line ; grain barely ^ line. 



