CHAPTER VIII. 

 TABULAR VIEW OF BRITISH GRASSES. 



TNdliis table the order is the same as in the second chapter. 

 -*■ For the reason already given the arrangement is that of 

 Bentham and Hooker (1904), from whom the following analysis 

 is necessarily adopted in the main, but it has been altered and 

 amplified to make it useful as a further help to identification. 



PANICACEM. 



Articulation of spikelets with pedicels occurring beneath the 

 glumes. Spikelet with one perfect floret placed above the male 

 or barren florets (if any) or the glumes 



PANICE^E. Outer palea stouter than the glume beneath, 

 Panicum, 3-8. 



ANDROPOGONE.E. Outer palea thinner than the glume 

 beneath, and often bearing a twisted awn. Polypogon, 

 24, 25. 



POACEM. 



Articulation of spikelets with pedicels (when present) occurring 

 beneath the outer palea but above the glumes. Spikelets with 

 one or more florets, and frequently a male floret or glume 

 above them, the male floret occasionally below them. 



PHAL ARIDE/E. Glumes normally four, two below the articula- 

 tion, two above it (usually small and empty or with a male 

 floret in each), the lower glumes occasionally deficient. 



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