DESCRIPTIONS OF TRIBES AND GENERA, 



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SUB-TRIBE 2. Phleoideae. 



Fruiting glumes delicate. Stigmas with short branches, projecting 

 from the apex of the spikelets. 



113. (106) Cornucopias L. A small, branched grass 

 with minute spikelets in small heads ; the pedicels be- 



FIG. 46. Cornucopia cucullatum L. (After Schreber. Beschreib., pi. 41.) 



come curved at maturity, when they separate at the 

 jointed base and bore into the ground. 



Species one (C. cucullatum L.), in the Orient (Fig. 46). 



114. (105) Crypsis Ait. (Antitragus Gartn.). Spikelets 

 small, awnless ; palea one-nerved ; stamens two ; fruit 

 a utricle, the seed adhering to the spikelet for some 

 time after it is expelled. 



Species one (C. aculeata Ait.), in the Mediterranean 

 region and upon the saline soils of the interior. 



115. (120) Heleochloa Host. (Pechea Pourret). Like 

 the preceding, except that the palea is two-nerved and 

 the stamens three. The false spikes are subtended by a 

 single leaf. 



Species eight, in the Mediterranean region and in the 

 temperate parts of Asia. Rhizocephcdus Boiss. belongs 



