PEDICELED SPIKELETS 



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are villous (having soft curly hairs) on the lower 



part of the midnerve and the marginal nerves and 



have a tuft of white cottony hairs at the 



base, but this pubescence is not found in 



all the species. 



In all the grasses mentioned so far, 

 the spikelets are borne in panicles (see 

 Fig. 10, A). Spikelets much 

 like those of Panicularia (Fig. 

 13) but borne in a raceme 

 and having awned lemmas 

 are found in Pleuropogon 

 (shown in Fig. 10, B). In 

 these spikelets the palea is 

 crested or winged on the nerves 

 (Fig. 15, showing a three quar- 

 ter view of a palea removed 

 from the floret). 



Returning to Fig. 11, A, 



Fig. 14. Spike- 

 let of Poa pra- 



tensis. 



w^e 

 o^ IG ,f 3 'r note the midnerve of the lemma 



Spikelet of 



Panicularia extending as an awn beyond the 

 naliT 1 ™ ' minutely toothed apex. The mid- 

 nerve and the two lateral nerves 

 as well are extended into awns in Triodia 

 flava (Fig. 16, the floret seen from the back) ; 

 the apex of the lemma is toothed and the 

 nerves are villous below. In Fig. 17 (floret Pleuropogon 



call fornzcus 



of Cottea pappophoroides opened out and 



seen from the back) the lemma is lobed and nine to 



eleven of its many nerves are extended into awns. 



Fig. 15. 

 Palea of 



