KET. 313 



wn, the upper 2-poiiited. An awn-like rudiment lodged in 

 groove on its back. Brachyelytrum aristatiun, Beauv. 



i^Muhlenbergia aristata, Pers.) 

 Gr. II. 11. 



Glumes various, sometimes pretty large, the lower 

 nailer, or sometimes both small or minute, the lower always 

 lorter. Flower usually hairy-bearded at the base, the' 

 )wer pale 3-nerved. Rudiment none. 



(579) Muhlenbergia (592). 



Gr. II. 10. 



W. I. 7. 



588. (581.) Flowers all alike 589 



Flowers of 2 sorts ; one sort under ground. The 

 jrminal flowers in a strict, slender, contracted panicle, the 

 idical ones solitaiy on a slender peduncle. 



Amphicarpum Furshii, Kunth. 



Gr. Vn. 57. 

 W. II. 17. 



389. Two hairy scales at the base of the flower, one on 

 ich side. Stigmas protruded at the apex of the flower, 

 'anicle branched, clustered, at length somewhat spreading. 



Fhalaris aruudiuacea, L. 

 Gr. VII. 55. 

 W. II. 22. 



No scales at the base of the flower. Stigmas 

 merging from the side 590 



590. Glumes ventricose, nearly as long as, or scarcely 

 mger, than the shining and at length cartilaginous pales (in 

 ieory, the lower glume is wanting, and its place occupied 

 y a pale !). Grain coated by the cartilaginous pales, 

 anicle spreading. Milium effusum, L. 



Gr. VII. 56. 



W. II. 16. 



Glumes convex-compressed and frequently (at 

 last one of them) longer than the pales, sometimes shorter- 

 lan they 591 



591. Lower pale obtuse, upper one small, often minute, 

 r wanting. (585) Agrostis. 



Lower pale acute 592 



