Folecus. | GRAMINES (Stapf). 465 
consisting of 2 iat reduced stamens, and supported by a 2-keeled pale. (See 
Greenland in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fra ance, ii, ’(1855) 172, with fig = 
Closely allied and very similar to the Mediterranean H. setosus (Trin. ), but 
differing from it in the slightly smaller and compara ‘aviay broader glumes, 
the longer awn of the lower glume and the very small yellow anthers 
2. H. lanatus (Linn. Sp. Pl. 1048); sphalmate mollis in Key 
perennial, tufted, 2-3 ft. high ; culms 3—4-noded, softly hairy, A 
least below the panicle, rarely quite olan: ; leaf- sheaths reversedly 
and softly hairy, rarely gla ape villous at the nodes, ee ee 
inflated; ligule membranous, oblong, strctonad 1 lin. long; blades 
linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 61 n. by 2-84 iis the sai very 
short, flat, ae ys 3 panicle erect, 0 oblong. 2-6 i in, long, usually 
their valves ; sathern 4-1 lin Tost, am. ust. Li De t. 2; 
Svalias ean : ee Div. ; on waste ‘tend near i Want ford Br idge, Wolley Dod 
1824! between Herzog and Retret, Wolley Dod, 2184! King "Williamstown 
Div. ; Rmcaier la a Miriatatine: Buchana 
Nat f Europe, et and sith Africa, introduced into most temperate 
ele et ‘both hemispheres 
XXX. ANTHOXANTHUM, Linn. 
Spikelets oblong to narrow-lanceolate, manly laterally compressed ; 
rhachilla disarticulating above the upper glume, not produc we beyond 
the uppermost floret. Florets 3, fi oath ime tr the low r 
barren, the terminal Si Glumes —— membranous, 1 Sonerseds 
keeled, acuminate ; upper longer. wer 2 valves equal and ver 
similar, oblong, emarginate, feilonaees, strongly laterally com- 
pressed 5-7-nerved, keeled, hairy, awned, awn of the lower valve 
short from 3-3" Way ‘below the tip, of the upper longer, kneed, from 
near the bar rarely from the middle; terminal valve much shorter 
I-nerved. Lodicules 0. Stamens 3 in the ee 2 in the 3 florets. 
Styles distinct, = ; stigmas long, exserted from the top of the 
spikelet, plumo Grain ovoid, slightly po compressed ; 
hilum putietiform embryo 1 the length of the 
Perennial or annual; blades flat, usually flacci ia “dt ht very 
a or spike-like, sometimes reduced to s scanty racemes ; sweet-scented. 
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