724 GRAMINE# (Stapf). [ Vulpia. 
unequally lobed. Stamens 1-3; filaments very short; anthers 
usually enclosed in the floret during flowering or permanently. 
Ovary glabrous (in the South African species) or minutely hispid at 
the top; stigmas sessile, plumose, permanently enclosed in the floret, 
or shortly exserted at the base. Grain linear, strongly compressed 
from the back, concave in front, more or less adhering to the pale or 
also to the valve ; embryo small; hilum filiform, long. 
Annual or perennial, slender age blades linear, very na — nero convo- 
lute or une, at least when dry ; panicles contra ote d, narrow, usually more or 
less secund, with short clavate oie: spikelet s subeylindr ssid acuminate, 
when young, then open ing out, laterally compressed and hpaeliee pence 3 flowers 
often cleistogamo 
Species about 20, mostly in the Mediterranean region and the adjacent 
countries ; the 2 species described below have been introduced into many parts of 
the world. 
i ate ii dg age usually binned enclosed in - 
sheath ; icle 2-10 in. long ; er glume reduced 
a minute Faealé or up to $ lin, oy my ene nerve- 
less or like upper 1-nerved x (1) Myuros. 
Uppermost internode long e rted ; pan -3 in. 
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and 1-nerved, a r 2-3} lin. ie ack irony : 
wedi d (2) bromoides. 
Myuros (Gmel. Fl. Bad. i. 8); annual, tufted; culms 
rer geniculate, ascending or suberect, 3-11 ft. high, glabrous, 
ooth, 2- (sometimes 3- ) noded, uppermost internode 21-6 in. long, 
euastly. wholly enclosed in the uppermost sheath ; sheaths ‘oesction inal 
the upper) rather loose, smooth, glabrous ; ligules very wire en 
obtusely aurieled; blades linear, taperin to a very acute point, 
1-6 in. by 3~1 lin,, flat or involute when dry, or ebtes "queda to 
subrigid, finely and tana few-nerved, oo or scabrid on 
the upper surface, otherwise glabrous and smooth ; panicle spike-like, 
erect or nodding and flexuous, narrow, raat or secund or 
facing all sides, 5-10 i in. long, ; rhachis filiform, acutely triquetrous, 
= e branches scabrid along the angles or smooth below; branches 
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grain 11-2 lin. long. Boiss. Fl. Or. MY 628. V. Pseudo-myurusy 
Reichb. Fl. Germ. Ezcurs. i. 87: Ie. Fl. Germ. i. t. 60, fig- 1525- 
v. 
bromoides, Celak. in Kern. Sched. pi Fl, Austr.-Hung. Exsice. 
awn 3-10 lin. long, fine, scabrid ; stamen 1; anther 4—2 lin. long; 
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