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Fig. 64. Lagurus ovatus Linn.— «, The empty glumes ; b, flowering glume 

 and palea. 



64. LAGURUS Linn. Sp. PI. 81. 1753. Spikeletsl-flowered, hermaphrodite, 

 in dense, capitate panicles. Empty glumes linear, long plumose-ciliate; flow- 

 ing glume narrow, smooth, 2-cleft, the divisions prolonged into slender awns, 

 the dorsal awn arising from above the middle, more rigid, longer, subgeniculate. 

 Palea hyaline, 2-keeled. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct; stigmas plumose. 

 Grain narrow, free within the slightly rigid fruiting glume. A low annual 

 with flat leaves and a long-exerted, ovoid, or oblong, solitary, densely flow- 

 ered, and woolly panicles. 



Species 1, Southern Europe. Cultivated as an ornamental and for dry bou- 

 quets. 



