FKSTrcE/E. 



525 



Common in Europe: introduoi'd into lawns and some old north- 

 ern pastures. See Vol, 1, p. I!i4, Fi^'. 87. 



125. (231). LamaRKIA ^fcpneh, Mcth. -301 (1:04). (nirysurus- 

 IVrs. Syn. 1 : 80 (18(>.')). Plerhim Desf. Journ. Hot. 1 : 75 (ISI.*}). 

 Tlna>a (Jarzia, Kol. Acnad. Zel. Aci Iteale, Ann. .'}-4, 24; ex Pari. 

 Fl. Polerm. 1 : 138 (1845). 



Fertile spikelots 1-llowered, intermixed with oterile ones in 

 little clusters on the very short branches of a 1 -sided spikelike pan- 

 icle, rachilla glabrous, inarticulate and often produced above the 

 flower, bearing a narrow awnlike glumo and sonietimes a second ru- 

 dimentary one above it. Empty ghnnes narrow, awuloss, slightly 

 uneqiuil, floral glume broader, bearing a snuiU dorsal awn. Sterile 

 spikelets hmger, with several truncate awnless empty glumes above 

 the two outer acute ones; palea of the perfect flowers narrow, 2- 

 keeled. Stamens 3. Styles short, distincit. (Jrain slightly com- 

 pressed, included by the Horal glume ami i)alea, but free from tliem. 

 A low grass with nuuiy branches and Hat leaf-blades. There is only 

 one species known, a native of the Mediterranean. Introduced 

 into many parts of the world, including Australia and the United 

 States. Nearly allied to Ciinosin'UA. 



1. L. Ai'UEA (L.) Mtench. 1. c. Hankeriana Griff. Itin. Not. 

 349. C'linoxiinis an reus L. Sj*. 107 

 ( 1 753). Chri/sxrus aureus Beauv. Agrost. 

 123 (1812). 



An elegant tufted annual, 10-18 cm. 



high. Leaf-blades thin, 5-8 mm. wide; 



ligule 1-8 mm. long, panicle linear or 



oval, 5-8 cm. long. Empty glumes of 



the fertile spikelets very luxrrow, keeled 



with five points, 4-4.5 mm. long, floral 



glume inserted 1 mm. above, oval, 3 mm. 



long, bearing a dorsal awn a little below Pig. 109 —Lnmarkia aurea. 



,1 (- n . .^ 1^ ~ -^. -S. spikelets; c, ovary. 



the apex, b-0 mm. long. (Kicbiirdsou.) 



California, Jones 3214, Pr ingle in 

 1882, Mrs. Jones for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 563. 

 Introduced into California. 



