54 



Fig. 36. Phalaris caroliniana Walt. (P. intermedia Bosc). SOUTHERN 

 CANARY-GRASS.— a, b, Spikelets; c, the same with the outer glumes removed, 

 showing the hairy, bristle-like second and third glumes: d, another view of the 

 same. Figs. 79 and 81 in Bui. 7, and 411 and 412 in Bui. 17, illustrate other 

 species of this genus. 



36. PHALAKIS Linn. Sp. PI. 54, 1753. Spikelets 1-flowered, strongly flattened 

 laterally; rachilla articulated above the first pair of empty glumes. Glumes 5, 

 awnless, the first two empty, equal, boat-shaped, and usually winged on the 

 keel, the 3d and 4th empty, narrow-lanceolate or bristle-form, closely appressed 

 to the 5th or flowering glume, which is hard and shining in fruit and closely 

 envelops the grain and palea. Annual or perennial grasses with fiat leaves and 

 densely flowered, spike-like or capitate inflorescence- sometimes expanded in 

 flower. 



Species about 10, most abundant in southern Europe. There are 2 or perhaps 

 3 native North American species. 



