GENERA OF GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES. 117 
the two florets; first floret perfect, its lemma awnless; second floret 
staminate, its lemma awned on the back. 
Fig. 61. — Aspris caryopliyllea. Plant, X I ; spikelet and two views of floret, X 5. 
Perennial grasses, with flat blades and contracted panicles. Species 
about eight, Europe and Africa; two introduced into the United 
States. 
Type species : Holms lanatus L. 
Ginannia Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 4: 321, 1901, not Scop., 1777, nor Dietr., 1804. 
Based on " Holcus L. et Auctor.," tbe two species included, G. pubescens and G. 
mollis, showing that it is to the species congeneric with Holcus lanatus L. that 
the name is applied. 
