Remaria. P A n i c e a e. 1G9 



R E I JI A R I A Flugg. 



Raccmi simplices, conferto-alterni. Spiculae subsessiles, angusto-lan- 

 ceolatae, acumlnalae, e paleis (glumis et valvulls) herbaceo-membranaceis Z 

 composilae. 



Gramina Iropica Amerlcac, repenlla 1. adscendendo-erccla, ramosa, pedalia vel 

 minora. 



Folia angusta , linearia 1. lanceolato-lincaria, brcvluscula. 



Ligulae loco barba piloruin. 



/îflf*?/»/ simpbclssimi, conferli, sparso-alterni , pi. min. pollicarcs, tenues. 



Spiculae in axis partialis linearis excavationibus laxiuscule allernae, adpressac, sub- 

 sessiles, anguslo-lanreolatae, acuminalae, parvac. Palcae, quibus compositae 

 sunt, très, parum inaequales et ejusdcm subslantiac: inferior, axi opposita, et 

 seconda, axis dorso adjacens, 3-nerves; terlia, cum secunda flosculum berma- 

 pbrodilum coastituens, binervis. (Inferior itaque aut gluma inferior est, su- 

 periori supressa, tumque periantbium inversum; aut, gluma utraque suppressa, 

 flosculus neuter univalvis, quod, ob substanliam flosculorum aequ.dem, pro- 

 babilius). 



Lodiculae squamae 2, collatérales, cuneatae, apicc emarginatae. 



Oi-arium lineari-oLlongiim, glabrum. Slyli 2. Sligmcila pennato-plumosula. 



Slamina 2, ô? Aniherae llnearcs. 



Frucfus caryopsis obovato-elliptica, libéra, elx;rbis, exsulca, dcpressiuscula, brcvi- 

 pedicellata, sculcllo suo duplo et qu. exe. longior. 



Beimaria acula Fliigg. Spiculis linea longioribns, subulalo-acuminalis, infia pi- 

 losis; Cuimo repente. 

 licimaria acuta. W. et S. I. p. 280. ïrin. Diss. If. p. 59. le. gram. XXIII. 1. llo. 

 V. spp. Rrns. 

 Prostrata. pedalis. Racemi 4 — G , dcmum patenlissimi et rcflexi, basi anantlii. 



Mcm. II. Ser. Se. nmlh. phys. et n„t. Ion,. III. ide p. Se. nal . .,., 



