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pollices circlter 8 longa, supremum 3 — 4 — 5-pollicare. Racemi 9 — 

 12, contracti, alterni 1. subbini, sesqui — 2-pollicares, inferne per inter- 

 valla 10-linealia, superne o-linealia sessiles. Spiculae glaberrimae. Styli 

 aut connati aut ad basin usque liberi. 



10. G R Y p s I s Ht. Keav. 



Thyrsus, interdum capitatus. Spiculae lanceolato-oblongae. Glumae 

 valvuljs paullo breviores , inferior parum minor. Valvula inferior 1- 

 nervis, praesertim superne carinata, mutica. Fructus ellipticus scutello 

 suo paullo longior. 



Gramina Europae australioris, Egypti et Amer. borealis, prostrata (rarissime 

 erecta), longitudine varia. 



Eadix fibrosa, 0. 



Culmi plures et plurimi , vix pollicares — fere pedales, ramosi I. subsim- 

 plices, glabri. 



Fnginoe amplae, internodio duplo magisve breviores, striatae, glabrae, lineas 



2 — 10 longae, supremae confertissimae. 

 Ligula pilosa. 



Fo/ja linearia 1. pugioniformia , infiima conferta et plerumque brevissjma, 



superiora semi — 1 — 2-polIicaria, glabra 1. bi'evipiHfera. 

 Thyrsus aut capitatus, vaginis 2 inclusus, 2 — 5 lineas latus; aut oblongus, 



3 — 1 lineas longus , vagina solitaria inclusus ; aut linearis (clavato- 

 linearis), V2 — iVa — 2V2 pollices longus, vagina 1 1. nulla inclusus, 

 densus, glaucus 1. nigrescens. Glumae subchartaceae, longe plerumque 

 valvulis paullo minores, inferior paullo brevior, nudae 1. dorso pilosae, 

 compressae , sursum magis carinatae , obtusiusculae 1. (rarlus) acutae. 



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