ENGELMANN—DICCIOUS GRASSES. 
The upper palea is narrower and a little longer than 
lower one, especially in the male flowers, obtuse and 
scarious at tip, and in the female closely oe the pistils. 
In the staminate flower it is bicarinate on the back; in the 
pistillate flower these keels are developed into wings, which 
are rolled around the upper flowers, as is indicated in the 
No scales (lodicule) were seen in either flowers. 
Stamens scarcely longer than the palee; anthers linear, 
deeply bilobed at both ends, longer than the filaments. In the 
eam staal 3 minute triangular bodies seem to represent 
“as stipitate ovary is elongated, triangular, with one an- 
gle towards the lower and tee towards a keels of the up- 
per palea; it is deeply bifid, the lobes terminating into 
straight it atone Simple hairs of the a stigma 
scarcely dent 
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terminal 8 aelee dict fri its position, can ; 
not be he elodantad poe —. all that is left. | ane 
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