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6. Hierocnzoa Gmel. 
Panicula, plerumque compacta; rarius Racemus simplicissimus.  G- 
mae aequales, flosculos aequantes.  Flosculi 3, omnes bivalves: 2 exte- 
riores masculi, 3-andri, sessiles, margine (dorsove) pilosi, aut mutici 
: brevimucronati, aut inferior sub apice brevisetigerus , superior Fr 
medium aristatus; intermedius hermaphroditus, brevi-pedicellatus, mas- 
culis subaequilongus, 2-andrus. 
Gramina in utriusque orbis varis regionibus (Nov. Zeel. Chile, Kamtsch. etc.) 
habitantia, Ÿ/2 — 2-pedalia, erecta. 
Folia linearia 1. lanceolato - linearia. 
Ligula membranacea. 
Panicula */2— 4 — 10-pollicaris, densa L. laxa. Radü 1-, plerumque 2-, 
rarius 5. Glumae pellucidae, aequales 1. parum inaequales, flosculos 
aequantes |. ïisdem paullo longiores L breviores, inferior tenui 1- 
superior 3-nervis. Ælosculi 3, aequales (vel marginales parum longio- 
res), 1 — 4-lineales; exteriores suboppositi, bivalves, 3-andri, sessiles, 
plerumque margine et apice pilosi, nunc mutici |. brevimucronati, 
nunc inferior sub apice brevi-setigerus, superior infra medium arista- 
tus: arista (recurva) flosculum aequante 1. eodem longiore; Flosculis 
intermedius brevissime pedicellatus , hermaphroditus, 2-valvis, 2- 
andrus. 
Lodicula oblonga, lanceolato -linearis, glabra. 
Ovarium oblongum, glabrum. Sfyli 2, Stigmata angusta, alba, exserta. 
Stamina in maculis flosculis 5, in hermaphrodito 2. 
a) Flosculis masculis muticis L. brevimucronatis. 
1) Hierochloa racemosa m. Racemo simplicissimo unilaterali, 8 — 10- lineari; 
Pedicellis appressis, glabris; Spiculis linea sublongioribus; Floscu- 
