SYNOPSIS OF GENERA. XV11 



sopogon. Third glume sometimes enclosing a male 

 floret. Terminal fertile glume awned. 



Spodiopogon, p. 26. 

 Spikelets in pairs on the simple panicle branches. 

 Branches of panicle spike-like, 2 or more, digitate or 

 scattered along the main rachis. (Bhdbar grass, &c). 



Pollinia, p. 26. 

 Spikelets on a single spike. Second empty glume and 

 flowering glume awned. A slender much branched or- 

 namental grass, common on rocks. 



PoGONATHEEUM, p. 27. 



Spikes slender, solitary or in clusters. Glumes 4, the 

 two lower ones narrow and rigid. Flowering glume 

 awned. Stamens 2. 



Dimeria, p. 27. 

 ** The second spikelet of each pair reduced to a stipiform 

 rudiments Inflorescence as in Pollinia. 

 Spikelets usually subdigitate, slender. Flowering glume 

 with a dorsal awn from near the base. Leaf blades 

 cordate lanceolate. 



Aetheaxon, p. 27. 

 Spikelets in simple spikes, in pairs at each notch or 

 excavation of the rachis, the one sessile and the other 

 stalked. Flowering glume not awned. 

 Spike densely clothed with long silky hairs, otherwise 

 as in Botibcellia. 



Eliontteus, p. 28. 

 Spike terete. Spikelets smooth, one sessile and fertile, 

 the other stalked and sterile. 



BOTTB03LLIA, p. 28. 

 Spike terete. Spikelets all sessile, solitary, or in pairs 

 at the lower part of the spike. 



Ophiuetjs, p. 29. 

 Spike subterete. Spikelets in pairs, one sessile fertile 

 and globose, the other stalked and sterile. A much 

 branched usually hairy annual. (Vide Plate B., Fig, 

 12). 



Manistjeis, p. 29. 

 Spike compressed, imperfectly jointed. Spikelets in 

 pairs, one sessile and fertile, the other stalked and 





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