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Fic. 47. Phleum pratense L. TIMOTHY.—a, ergy glumes; 6, the floret, 
sewing, ess eng oped = 2stigmas. Fig.451 in Bul. 17 illustrates another species 
47. PHLEUM Linn. Sp. Pl. 59. — ee 1-flowered, hermaphrodite; 
rachilla a chaser above the empty 
Empty glumes 2, compressed-carina’ rinate, ponte ‘usually ciliate on the keels and 
abruptly mucronate or short awn-pointed; floral empty 
ones, thin, truneate, awnless, rather loosely ine losing the grain. Stamens 3 
—— aistinet. saaias or perennial grasses, with angle, erect culms ‘and 
as Pee a Hi 
“Species 10, te oa sees na wate ees 2 the Old and New World. 
