SVNOPSIS OP GENERA. XX111 



barren spikelets many, blunt, and bifariously imbricate. 

 A small annual with handsome golden coloured inflores- 

 cence. 



Lamarckia, p. 61. 



Panicle spreading or compact. Spikelets numerous, 

 usually many-flowered, more or less compressed. Outer 

 glumes shorter than the distichously imbricate flowering 

 ones. Flowering glumes 3-nerved, not awned, keel pro- 

 minent. Eachilla usually persistent, rarely jointed as 



in Poa. (Dab, &c.) 



Eragrostis, p. 61. 



Panicle spikelike, densely cylindrical, or more or less 



interrupted towards the base. Margins of flowering 



glumes transparent. 



KffiLERIA, p. 61. 

 Spikelets many-flowered, arranged in dense spike-like 

 clusters. Flowering glumes broad at the apex and mu- 

 cronate, 5- or more-nerved. Small prostrate grasses 

 with short stiff almost .prickly leaves. In India con- 

 fined to the Punjab. 



iELUROPUS, p. 66, 



Panicle various, usually lax. Spikelets few-flowered, 

 Eachilla jointed between the florets. Flowering glumes 

 5- or more-nerved, membranous, keeled, not awned. 



Poa, p. 67. 

 Spikelets rather large, subterete or compressed, many- 

 flowered. Outer glumes shorter than the florets. Flow- 

 ^erinj* glumes 5- or more-nerved, rounded on the back, 

 and usually awned from a little below the 2-cleft apex. 

 Pale shorter than the flowering glume, with two rigid 

 ciliate keels, adherent to the grain. 



Bromus, p. 67. 

 TEIBE XII. Hordese.— Spikelets 1-many-flowered, sessile at 

 the teeth or excavations on the rachis of a simple spike. 

 * Spikelets solitary at the nodes, 3- or more-flowered. 



Spikelets many-flowered, alternate, distichous, com- 

 pressed, placed edgeways on the rachis. (Bye grass). 



Lolium, p. 68. 

 Spikelets 3-5-flowered, somewhat compressed. Margins 

 of glumes facing the main rachis. Flowering glumes 

 rounded on the back or keeled above, 5 — 9-nerved, 



