G.3. Tripsacum L. GAMA GRASS.—a, Two joints of the fiend 
‘oe fortis of the spikes be < bea pistiiate parc ar ¢, outer glume of same; 
ond glume of same; ¢, fl g¢ glume and palea showing the long exserted 
— J, staminate Goikels batro 
. TRIPSACUM Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. - si 1261. 1759. Spikelets sewer 
a senile: the 2-flowered staminate spi geminate along the continuous 
sige chis above; t the T-Rowered, pistillate spikelets solitary at each joint of ni 
eulm or its branches. Glumes 4, awnless, the 2 lower or outer ones in the male 
spikelet empty and rigid or subcoriaceous, those hse closing the male flowers 
of i 
hyaline; the the female spikelet co: s, and at ponte indu- 
; id; sy ad Lape but hyaline ike the 4th, whic! 
ower. Stamens with long exserted a nectiioies 
Grain ovoid, in wae vias es ePES 
of the rachis and covered 1 by the "bardeset lower glumes, free.. Tall, stout, 
