228 BULLETIN" 772, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



fertile lemma chartaceous- indurate, typically obtuse, the nerves 

 obsolete, the margins inrolled over an inclosed palea of the same tex- 



FIG. 137. Paspalum laeve. Plant, X \ ; two views of spikelet and fertile floret, X 10. 



ture, a lunate line of thinner texture at the back just above the base, 

 the rootlet protruding through this at germination. 



