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Fig. 16. Nazia aliena (Spreng.) Scribn. (Lnppago aliena Spreng.) WEST- 

 ERN PRICKLE-GRASS.— a, A group of spikelets; b, the second glume covered 

 with hooked spines; c and d, flowering glume and palea. 



16. NAZIA Adans. Fam. H. 2: 31, 581. 1763. (Tragus TL&ll, 1768). Spikelets 

 in groups of three to several at each joint of the main axis, the uppermost in 

 each fascicle sterile, 1-flowered. First glume minute or wanting, the 2d rigid, 

 exceeding the flowering glume, its back covered with hooked spines; flowering 

 glume and palea hyaline, distinctly shorter than the 2d glume. Stamens 3. 

 Style short and distinct; stigmas rather long, plumose. Grain oblong, included 

 in the glumes, but free. Diffusely branched annuals with flat leaves and 

 terminal, spike-like inflorescence. 



Species 2 or 3, in the tropical and warmer temperate regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



