GRASS FA^rILY 551 



29. Seslkria. — Spikilets in an ovoid, spike-like panicle, awnless, 

 with a soft ciliate glume below each. 



30. Cynosurus. — Spikclels in a i-sided, spike-like panicle, 

 2 — 5-flo\vered, with bristly comb-like glumes below them. 



31. KoEi.t^RiA. — Spikilels in a sub-cylindric spike, 2 — 5-flowered ; 

 flowering glume membranous, keeled, pointed. 



32. MoLlNiA. — Spikdels in a narrow but loose panicle, lanceo- 

 late, 1 — 3-flowered ; glumes hardening on the fruit. 



^],. CatabroSA. — Spikclels in a spreading panicle, with whorlcd 

 branches, i — 3-flowered; einpiv glumes very unequal, •blunt; 

 fioweriug glume truncate at the top. 



34. Mi;lica. — Spikelets in a slender panicle, ovate, awnless, 

 I — 2-llo\vered : uppir glumes forming a club-like rudiment. 



35. Dactvlis. — Spikelets 3 — 5-flowered, densely crowded in a 

 i-sided panicle ; floti-ering glume shortly awned. 



36. BRfz.v. — Spikelets panicled, pendulous, short, flat, densely 

 and distichously imbricate, 3- or more-flowered ; glumes mem- 

 branous, boat-shaped, blunt. 



37. VoA. — Spikelets panicled, awnless, 2- or more-flowered; 

 glumes acute, unequal : -flowering glume keeled, 3 — 5-vi:-:ned. 



3S. Glvckria. — Spikelets panicled, awnless, many-flowered; 

 glumes obtuse : flowering glume sub-cylindric,; 5 — y-ribbed obtuse. 



39. ScLEROCHLOA. — I"iiffering from Glveh-ia in the flowering 

 glume being cvlindric and faintly 5-veined, the lodicules slender, 

 and the jruit compressed. 



40. Festi'CA. — Leaf-sheath split to base ; spikelets in a panicle 

 or spike, 3- or more-flowered : flowering glume rounded at the 

 back ; 3 — 5-ribbed, pointed or awned : slyles at the top of the 

 sihooth ovary. 



4r. Bkomus. — Leaj-shealh split half-way : spikelets panicled, 

 many-flowered : flowering glume rounded at 'the back, with a long, 

 dorsal awn ; styles below the hairy top of the ovary. 



42. Serrafalcus. — Leaf-sheath split les» than half-way; lo'wer 

 empty glume 5-veined, u.pptr 7 — 9-veined : otherwise much as in 

 Bronius. , ^ 



4:;. Brachypodium. — Spikelets in a spike or raceme, long, 

 manV-flowered ; rackis not mdented ; glun:es unequal; flowering 

 glunie with terminal awn ; ovary hairy at the top. 



Tribe S. HerJeiV. — Spikelets in 2 cr nnire rows, sessile in the notches 

 of a siniple rackis. forming a spike ; rachilla, generally produced 



j\.\. LoLiUM. — Spikelets solitary \i\ the notches, with their edges 

 to the rachis, 3- or more-flowered. 



