j qo P A N I C E A E. Panicum 



r Americae borealis 24. 

 Species extratropicae 38 < Eur. et As, australioris 5. 



' — — — borealis 9 (e quibus 3 [Echinochloa 1, 

 Setaria 2] usque atl lal. bor. grad. cire. 60.)** 

 Grarnina solum omnis grncris habilantia, a pollicum aliquot ad pedum trigintn 

 ahlludinem assuigentia , erecta I. prosliala. 

 Folia linearia (saepe involula), lanceolatn, ovala, cordata. 

 Li"ula ciliaris 1. membranacea, plerumque brevissima, sed et pi. min. producla; in 



terdum nulla. 

 Inflorescenlia maxime varia (neque vero Spica , ncc Caduceiis): Bacemus nunc soli- 

 tarips, nunc plurcs, digitati vel altérai vcl jubati — TJiyrsus simplex, vel pi. 

 min. compositus — Juba — rarius Panicula vera. 

 Spiculae hemiologamae, (in Isachnes speciebus nonnullis hemigamae) bidorne (ubi 

 gluma inferior obsolela, nonnumqiiam pseudouniflorae) , minimae — 4-lineaIes, 

 oblongae, (rarissime orbiculatae) , ovales, ovatae, obovatae, lanceolatae; thyr- 

 satae plerumque setis t pedicellis sparsim enalis-, racematae saepe pilis cinctae. 

 Gluma inferior superiore longe plerumque miner, interdum pusilla 1. obsoleta, 

 rarius superiorem aequans, rarissime subexcedcns, nervis, quam superiur, pau- 

 cioribus (rarissime pluribus) 1, 3, 5, (l ■ — 9 — 15) notata; super ior raro 

 flosculos superans raroque illis brevior, 3 — 5 — 1 — 9 — 11 — 15 -nervis, 

 herbacée- membranacea, mutica I. rarius (cum inferiore) setifera. — Flusculus 

 i///mor sessilis, 1 — 2-valvis, masculus vel neuler (rarissime subhermapbroditus 

 vcl, in Isachnes speciebus nonnullis, seminiferus) : valvula inferior glumae su- 



*) SubJivlsioinim dlstributio geograpliica: Cahrern , trnpica occldenlalia omnia. Digitnna, tropica 

 uti'iusque orbls 15, extiatrop. 5. Vruchloa , trop, orient. Orlhopogon^ trop. ulr. 8, exlralrop. 1. 

 A'c/iiiiuc/iliw , trop. ulr. 9, extratrop. 3. Setan'a, trop. utr. 18, exlralrop. 6. Jlurpuslucliys, trop. 

 rcc. omnia. Brachinria , trop. utr. 51, exlralrop. 4. f ir/^aria ^ trop. ulr. 60, exlialrop. 10. (Eur 

 au!.lr. 2.). JtJiliaria, trop. ulr. 55, exlialrop. 15. (Eur. auslr. 1.). Ichiiaitthuij trop, occid. ouiuia. 

 liuchiit^ trop. ulr. 



