ACOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 577 



%\ partial spikes 3—5 digitate or closely corymbose naked spread 



gin, i^tt5 partial rachis flexuose serrulate on the margin, spikelets 



bovg oblong-lanceolate slightly imbricated, lower glume minute 



W ovate acute nerveless, upper lanceolate about half as long and 



li 1 broad as the floret 3-nerved almost glabrous, neuter glumella 



fi D 5-nerved glabrous or slightly pubescent on the margin. Parn. 



[i^l Gr. t. 70. Panicum i. ; E. B. t. 849. 



P^L Rare, in sandy cultivated fields; it formerly grew in Battersea 



tijj^ fields, near London. Other habitats, given in the British Floras for 



^^ this species, belong, in Mr, Borrer's opinion, to the next. 0, 7, 8. 



From a span to' a foot high, branched at the base, erect, or 



Q\ I ascending. Leaves and sheaths hairy, the latter with small tubercles 



'^ j from which the hairs spring. Spikes 3 — 5, digitate. Spikelets se- 



'ace- I cund, 2 together, appressed to the flattened rachis. 



^^?'^ 1 '2. J). ^humifusaVeTS. {glabrous F.); culms depressed, sheaths 

 ^itt I and leaves glabrous, stipules membranaceous, partial spikes 

 '^rij I 2—4 somevyhat digitate naked spreading, partial rachis nearly 

 joat- I straight miniitely serrulate on the margin, spikelets oblong 

 ¥^s somewhat separate, lower glume very minute truncate em- 

 airs. J bracing the spikelet or (usually) wanting, upper glume oblono- 



3-nerved pubescent nearly as long as the fertile floret, glumella 



Ijf^;, " of the neuter floret 5-nerved pubescent. E. B. S. t. 2613 : 



|g Parn, Gr. t. 71. Syntherisma glabrum ScTirad. Panicum 



^jjy ^ Gaud. : Trin. 



Gr, J Rare. On loose sand at Weybridge, Surrey ; Ipswich ; Norfolk ; 



Suffolk; Sussex; and Yorkshire. ©. 7, 8 Generally smaller 



, and more depressed than the preceding, of a purpler hue. Leaves 



. ," and sheaths quite glabrous. Partial spikes usually fewer. Spikelets 



^l' more ovate and more convex on the back. Neuter glumella purplish. 



Y Richard in Pers, Syn, appears to have been the first to discriminate 



'^^^ this as a species ; and Schrader has admirably described and fia-ured 



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CLASS III. 



. ACOTYLEDONOUS, ^ or CELLULAR, PLANTS. 



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Whole plant with a cellular structure (except in the 

 true Ferns, which have tubular vessels among the cells, 

 and hence approach the 2iid Class). There are no real 



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