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Fig. 47. A, spikelet of Eleusine indica; B, inflorescence. 



of a bird's toes, the spikes borne on so short an axis 

 that they appear to spring from the same point.] 



In Lesson VII we 

 obtained the pat- 

 tern of the l-fiowered 

 spikelet by eliminat- 

 ing all but the lowest 

 floret and the glumes 

 from a several-flow- 

 ered spikelet. Elimi- 

 nating all but the 

 lowest floret of Eleu- 

 sine we have a model 

 of the spikelet of Bermuda-grass, Capriola Dactylon 

 (Fig. 48, A). A vestige of the eliminated florets re- 



FiG. 48. A, spikelet of Capriola Dactylon, 

 floret raised above the glumes; B, in- 

 florescence. 



