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POACE.E. 



A small genus of 2 sjtoeies or well-murkcd varieties, nearly 

 allied to Arundo and only separated from it bv havin<r the lowest 

 Mower male or abortive. 



It extends over the tropical and temperate and some of the colder 

 regions of both liemispheres, growing in wet places with rootstocks 

 often 40 cm. below the surface of tlie soil. 'I'he culms are l-(j m. 

 high; the blades firm, broad and Hat. 



1. P. Phragmites (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. :5r!> (1880-83). 

 Reed-grass. Arundo Phnuj mites \j. '6\). PI. 81 (1753). P. aJ- 



FlG. 92. — Phragmites Phrngiintes. A, spikf^let ; a, floret. (Scribnor.) 



timimnx Mabille. hVch. IM. Corse, fasc. •.' : 39 (ISOT-it). P. (trnn- 

 dinarva Allan). Munro. Journ. liinn. Soc. 0:40 (ISO*^). /*. aiis- 

 traU.s Trin. Steud. Nom. Ed. •', 'l-.^U (1841). P. Ih'vlamUvri 

 Fourn. Hull. Soc. Hot. Fr. "U: 178 (187;). P. ni/wnsis Nees. Fl. 

 Afr. Austr. 3.")(5 (1841). /'. c/iih'tisis Stcud. Norn. Fd. •.', 2:3^4 

 (1841). P. ,'ln'nsanthi(s Mabillo, Hccii. PI. ("orsc, fasc. •»:3r 

 (1807-9). P. ciuif/csla Lowe. Trans, ('ami). Phil. Soc. (5: part \\, 

 'rl\) (1838). /*. e.rjdanalus'Vv\u. Steud. Xom. Ed. ",', ^': 3-.'4 (1841). 

 /*. //^r.svr^.v llcgetschw. Fl. Schw. (iS (184{)). P. f/i(/(iiif<'(i .). (iny. 

 F. Schultz, Arch. Fl. Fr. ct Allcm. ■,'()() (1848). P. (jrwra Steud. 

 Norn. Ed. 'I. 'l\'^'^\ (1841). P. fiis/xniira Nees, Nov. Act. Nat. 

 Cur. 19:Suppl. 1. 15'2 (1843). P. /iiimih's De Not, Cat. Ilort. 

 Genuen. 27 (1840). P. isinm I{ei(!hb. Fl. Cfcrm. Excurs. 140* 

 (1832). P. japonira Stcud. Syn. PI. Gram. 190 (185.')). /*. Karka 

 Trin. Steud. Nom. Ed. 2. 2: 3-»4 (1841). /*. htxljfoni Steud. Syn. 



