i2 P H I P P S I A. Botanirinc. 



Folia liriearia, ferc lineani lata, obtusiuscula, compressa 1. plana, glabra, pro 

 Ftalura plantulac semi-1. ultrapolUcaria, radicalia angustiora, vegetioris 

 culmi superius 4-lineas longuni. 



Pntucula lineari-oblonga, contracta, pl. min. semipollicaris, lutescendo- viri- 

 dis. RacUi scmiverticillato -fasciculati, erecti, laeves, simplices 1. ramo- 

 suli, inaequales: inferiores 6 — 8°' superiores 3 — 2"', illi superne, hi 

 a basi florifci'i. Spicidae linea breviores , juniores lineari-oblongae, 

 adultiorcs obovatae, obtusae. Glumae lineari-oblongae, acutiusculae : 

 infimi minima, cnervis, plerumque delapsa , superior duplo major, 

 valvulis 4 — 5'cs I. fcre 3-plo brevior, obsoletc l-nervis. 1'alvulae 

 basi contractae in torulum minutum, concavae, lato-oblongae, j>l. niin. 

 oblusae, margine inaequaliter crenulatae: inferior saepe pauUo acutior, 

 dorso infernc saepissime pubcscens, 1-1. obsoletc 3-nervis, nervo mcdio 

 infcrne prominulo: supcrior aequilonga et acquilata, obtusa, 3 — 4-dcn- 

 ticulata, 2-nervis. 



Lodiculae squamae 2 minimae, oblongae, acutiusculae. 



Oi/arium oblongum, glabrum. Styli 2, brevissimi. Stigmata sid>sessilia, 

 simpliciuscua. 



Slamina 1 — 2, (l — 3, Broi\n). Antherae oblongae. 



Fructiis ovali- oblongus, exsulcus, sculcllo bis longior. 



1) PJiippsia algida Trin. in Sprgl. n. Entd. 11, p. 37- 

 Agrostis algida P/iipps it. 

 Trichodium algidum PietS. 11. p. 285. 

 Vil/a algida Trin. ic. gr. VII, 83. 

 Lapp. Groenl. N. Scmla. 



(■}, Gulniis palmaribus, inferne saepe ramosis, ad paniculun usque 

 vaginatis: vagjnis internodio longioribus: foliis hlioribus, culmo 



