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BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS 



here it rests ; but when there is any wind it is thrown 

 out, and a fresh supply drops down, to be scattered in 

 its turn. The plant is protected against browsing quad- 



FiB. 352. — Airhenatherum avenaceum. 1, 2 xl2. 3, 4x5. 1, A closed anther ; 

 2, an open anther ; 3, spikelets on a calm day with glumes distended, and anthers 

 pendulous ; 4, spikelets in a wind. The pollen escaping from the pendulous 

 anthers in the spikelet to the right ; in that to the left {and below) the 

 anthers (two only remaining) have shed their pollen ; in a third flower (in the 

 same spikelet as the last mentioned) the anthers are still closed and in process 

 of being exserted. 



rupeds by the scabrid leaves. Kerner, however, saw 

 thousands of the tufts on the meadows near Oberiss in 

 the Tyrol, which cattle had torn up, as he supposes, so 

 as to get at the edible plants growing near them. 



HOLCUS 



H. lanatus. — The floral arrangements resemble those 

 of Arrhenatherum. According to Kerner some florets 

 open in the morning about 6 a.m. and others about 7 p.m. 



