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b, Spikelets; c, empty glumes; d, 



FIG. 50. Phippsia algida (Soland.) E. Br. 

 flowering glume. 



50. PHIPPSIA R, Br. Suppl.App. Parry's Voy.cclxxv. 1823. Spikelets 1-flow- 

 ered, hermaphrodite, very small. Empty glumes minute, unequal, or the 1st 

 sometimes wanting, the 3d or flowering glume thin, membranaceous, somewhat 

 carinate, with the apex irregularly dentate, awnless. Palea about the length 

 of its glume, 2-keeled. Stamen 1. Styles short, distinct; stigmas plumose. 

 Caryopsis oblong, free. A dwarf annual, with narrow, flat leaves, which are 

 scarcely exceeded by the very slender, few-flowered panicles. 



Species 1, in the north polar regions of both hemispheres. 



