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spicula duplo brevioribus barbato; gluma I" a basi ultra medium 
usque pilis sursum deerescentibus (inferioribus gluma paullo breviori- 
bus) hirsuta, margine superne brevius ciliata, in '/, superiore dorsi 
scabra, elevato-7-eostata ; II^ inter dentieulos mucronata, 3-nervis, 
carina dorsoque ad instar I»! pilosa, superne ciliolata ; III* ovato- 
lanceolata, acuta, 3-nervis, dorso pilosula, margine ciliolata ; palea 
eam æquans, lanceolata, binervis, bicuspidata, nervis ciliata; anther& 
3 mm. long: ; IV* non gibba; arista validiuscula 12—15 mm. longa 
columnä eastaneá secus spiras scabrá quam subula subpallidior laxe 
torta duplo breviore. Styli stigmatibus linearibus 4—5 mm. longis 
duplo breviores. Spicula pedicellatze ut sessiles nisi gluma I": et IP 
mucronata, II*» mucro longior. 
In rupestribus et lapidosis vallium pr. Uschak Phrygis (900 m. alt.) 
leg. Balansa (Pl. or. 1338). 
b. Annuus; culmus decumbens, lamin:e petiolata, ligula elongata. 
3. Sp. albidus Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 19, p. 66; Andropo- 
gon rhizophorus Steud. Synops. 1, p. 381. 
Culmi e nodis inferioribus radices supraterraneas longas rectas 
agentes, 80 em. v. plus longi, superne breviter nudi, inferne ramos 
floriferos solitarios —3-nos agentes. Vaginæ laxe, glaberrimæ v. 
superne versus margines fimbriatz, internodiis breviores. Ligula 
lineari-oblonga, 4—8 mm. longa, albo- v. subfusco-membranacea, 
lateribus subherbaceis nervosis in vaginam decurrentibus, apice den- 
tata. Lamins in petiolum 2—3 cm. longum contracte, lanceolatz, 
10—15 em. longs, 1—3 cm. late, summa non abbreviata, abrupte 
euspidato-acuminatz, planæ,flaccidæ, subtus glaucescentes, utrinque 
pilis tenuissimis adsperse, margine scabree, costa media basi crassius- 
eula multinervi sursum mox tenerascente munitze, nervis lateralibus 
primariis utrinque 3—4, seeundariis creberrimis, omnibus tenuissimis 
non prominentibus, distantibus, percursw. Panicula lineari-oblonga, 
5—10 em. longa, densiuscula, erecta, ramis solitariis erecto-patulis 
simplieibus basi breviter (3—5 mm.) nudis, parte nuda glaberrimis, 
in axillis barbatis, imo panieulam dimidiam subzquante. Racemi 
1,5—4 em. longi, crassi, albo-villosi; articuli pedicellique spiculze 
medium :equantes v. superantes, dorso glaberrimi, marginibus pilis 
albis mollibus patentibus subzequalibus dense eiliati. Spieule sessiles — 
elliptieo-lanceolat®, callo pilis spicula triplo brevioribus barbato ; 
gluma I^* subchartacea, obtusiuscula, integra v. leviter — a 
