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styles two, capillary, reflexed ; stigmas feathery ; scales 

 ovate, concave, acute ; seed roundish, enveloped by the 

 flowering glume and palea, but not united to them. 

 Species 6: — 1. pratense ; 2. alpinum; 3. Boehmeri ; 4*. 

 asperum ; 5. arenarium ; 6. Michelii. 



Genus 9. Alopectjrus. Spikelets one-flowered ; 

 outer glumes equal, ovate-lanceolate, concave, com- 

 pressed, connate at base ; flowering glume ovate, lanceo- 

 late, concave, with a slight awn on its back; no palea; 

 filaments three, flattened at the base ; anthers forked at 

 each end ; ovary roundish ; styles capillary, united at 

 the base ; seed ovate, folded in the flowering glume. 

 Species 6 : — 1. agrestis ; 2. pratensis ; 3. genicidatus ; 

 4. alpinus ; 5. bulbosus ; 6. fulvus. 



Genus 10. Chamagrostis. Spike simple ; spikelets 

 one-flowered; outer glumes equal, or nearly so, erect, 

 oblong, abrupt, keeled, awnless ; flowering glume a little 

 shorter, very thin, white, hairy ; palea so small as to 

 seem but a tuft of hairs, or altogether absent ; ovary 

 ovate, smooth ; filaments three, hair-like, twice as long 

 as the flowering glume; stigmas long, slender, downy; 

 seed elliptical, enfolded in the glumes but not united to 

 them. Species 1 : — minima. 



Genus 11. Lagurus. Spikelets single-flowered; 

 outer glumes long, narrow, spreading, hairy ; flowering- 

 glume of firmer texture, shorter, with two awns springing 

 fork-like from its apex, and a very long one on its back ; 

 palea shorter than the flowering glume, and with a pair 

 of awns on its apex, but smaller than those on the flow- 

 ering glume ; scales lanceolate, blunt, tumid at the base ; 

 ovary oblong ; styles short ; stigmas long ; filaments 

 hair-like ; anthers oblong, pendulous, notched at each 

 end. Species 1 :—ovatus. 



