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racemulis l-articulatis aucti, ramo appressi quo fit ut cum terminali 
confluere videantur. Rhacheos artieuli dorso facieque plani, margine 
crasso parce ciliati, ciliis summis artieulo 2—5-plo brevioribus, inter- 
dum altero margine vel in articulis imis omnino glabri. Spicule 8 
formå variæ : gluma I^ in ?/, inferiore (raro in '/, tantum, rarius ad 
apicem usque) coriacea, plus minus nitens, nervis ibique non prominen- 
tibus, marginibus involutis reliquas amplectens; in '/,—'/, superiore 
sensim magis herbaceo-chartacea, manifeste 5—9—11-nervis, ibique 
marginibus inflexa, flexuris setuloso-ciliatis, extremo apice hyalina 
sspe ultra carinas laterales mueroni instar producta, varie pubes- 
cens v. villosula, rarius glabra, eallo minuto obtuso pilis brevibus 
pareisque barbato; gluma II^ I" æquans, ei similis, in '/, inferiore 
subcoriacea, convexa, superius chartacea ibique plus minus distinete 
carinata, acuta v. acutiuscula, 3—7-nervis, nitens, marginibus invo- 
luto-implicatis hyalinis ciliolata, dorso juxta carinam sepius pubes- 
cens; IT primä paullo—'/, brevior, elliptico-oblonga v. ovalis, membra- 
nacea, acutiuscula, tenuissime binervis, marginibus implieatis ciliatis ; 
IV^ quam II^ fere duplo brevior, late ovalis, obtusa, biloba v. biden- 
tula, l-nervis, ciliata, ex fissura nune aristam exserens perfectam 
validiuseulam columnä lævi rectá subulam seabram dilutius coloratan 
æquante, nune integra, mutica v. mucronata. Palea quam gluma IV* 
paullo brevior, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, enervis, ciliata. Antherz 
2,5—3 mm. longe, flavae; stigmata linearia, dense plumosa, ferru- - 
ginea, infra mediam spiculam exserta, stylos subzequantia. Spieule 
pedicellatse c v. neutrze, sessilibus duplo—4-plo angustiores, lineari- 
lanceolatze, demum a pedicello solute: gluma I™ herbacea, margini- 
bus acute implicata, carinis aeuleolato-ciliatis, dorso glabra, nervis 
5—9 scabris; II“ I** similis, lanceolata, acuta, 3—5-nervis, IIP et IV* 
ubi adsunt, hyaling, decrescentes, ceiliate, 2—1-nerves. Palea 
lineares, enervis, longe ciliata; antherze 2,5—3 mm. longs v. 0. 
Subspec. a. halepensis; racemorum rhachi demum sponte articu- 
latim disjungente, articulis disjunctis apice cicatricem rotundam bene 
cireumscriptam lævem exhibentibus; spiculis pedicellatis (c? v. raro 
neutris) sessiles æquantibus, (rarius superantibus v. eis paullo bre- 
vioribus), pedicellis spiculam sessilem dimidiam »quantibus fultis. — 
Perennis, raro ©. Innovationnes (si perennis est) extravaginales, 
stolones squamatos formantes. Culmi sine ramis floriferis. Vaginge 
innovationum compresse. Ligula semper ciliolata, dorso pubescens, 
intus pilis stipata. Spiculæ sessiles sæpius lanceolatz, raro elliptieze 
v. lineari-lanceolatz, latitudine majore in media gluma v. inferius 
