232 CHLORIS MELVILLJANA. 



chloa noh. (Holcus Palis. Trinii, et Wahlenh. uori Linnai 

 gen. et sp. pi. ed. prima, iiec Schreberi nee Gartneri •) quae 

 tamen facile distinguitur ab hoc genere uti et ab Aira et 

 ArrhenatherOj gluma cum apice pedicelli articulata et una 

 cum locusta decidua. 



66. HiERocHLOE ALPiNA, Boem. et Sell. syst. 2,jo. 515. 

 Br. in Boss voy. ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 194. {Ante, p. 178.) 

 Richardson in Franklin s journ. j). 731. 



Holcus alpinus, Swartz in Schrad. neue journ. 2, st. 2, 

 p. 45, t. 3, WaJdenb. lapp. p. 31, t. 2. Svensh hot. 438. 

 Flor. Dan. 150S. Giesecke greenl. in Breivsters Edin. 

 encyclop. 



67. HiEROCHLOE PAuciELORA, raccmo simplici, flosculo 

 masculo superiore brevissime setigero, foliis culnii brevissi- 

 mis ; radicalibus involutis. 



Desc. Gramen 3-5-unciale. Radix repens. Culmi erecti, 

 infra foliati supra nudi, striati. Folia radicalia subulata, 

 marginibus involutis, culmo aliquoties breviora ; culmea 

 abbreviata late subulata, marginibus inflexis, vaginis suis 

 laxiusculis multoties breviora. Bacemus erectus, simplex 

 vel subsimplex, pauciflorus, pedicellis Isevibus. Locustcs 

 ovatse, acutse, triflorse. GIuvub bivalves, scariosae, ovatae, 

 concavae, acutiusculae, glaberrimae, locustam subaequantes, 

 valvula inferiore manifesto minore. Floscidi later ales 

 masculi, triandri, bivalves, chartacei, valvula inferior ovata, 

 concava, marginibus infra medium nudiusculissupi'aomnino 

 nudis, flosculi superioris raox sub apice emarginato setigera, 

 seta brevissima stricta valvulam vix superante ; flosculi in- 

 ferioris mutica v. per-obselete setigera; utriusque valvula 

 superior angustior, linearis, dinervis, semibifida. Flosculus 

 terminalis hermaphroditus, diander, muticus : valvula hi- 

 ferior concava, quinquenervis, extra medium dorso lateri- 

 busque pilosiusculis, chartacea, fusca, apice scarioso; superior 

 linearis, hyalina, glabra, acuta, indivisa, uninervis. Lodicula 

 2, collaterales, lanceolatae, acuminatae, hyalinae, ovario 

 longiores. Ovarium glabrum. Styli 2. Stiytnafa alba, 

 dense plumosa. 



