APPENDIX. 367 



Gramen fparteum 2. Clufii. Bauh.hiß. 2. p*ftt* Raj. 

 hiß. 1259. 



Gramen fpieattuii fparteum, fpica fericea ex vtriculö 



prodeunte. Tournef. inß. 

 Hifpanis Albardin, Alvardin, nomine ab 



Arabibus, vt videtur, relido, 



DESCRiPTIO SPECIEL 

 Radix repens, fafciculata, filiformis, culmos et folia 



fafciculata in caefpitem emittens. 

 Culmi teretes, filiformes, glabri, fubnudi, vnico arti- 

 culo nudo fupra medium vel verfus apicem in- 

 ftru&i, qui poft florefcentiam Jonge excrefcit, 

 verfus bafin vero duobus tribusque articulis con- 

 fertis, vagina teflis ; fpithamales usque bipedales. 

 Folia radicalia copiofa, praeter culmos fru&ificantes 2g6» 

 caefpitofa, tereti-filiformia, nempe acutiffime 

 convoluta f. conduplicata , glabra, apparenter 

 ftriata, culmorum altitudine, tenaciffime bafipro 

 fitu altiori longius vaginata : Vagina ar£fe con- 

 voluta, fimiliter gläbre ftriata, terminata mem- 

 branula vtrinque acuta, bifida, tenuiflima* CuU 

 worum, radicalibus fimillima j fummum brevius, 

 * 2 -.4 vnciale. 



Fht vnicus, culmo terminalis, magis minusve inclina- 

 tus, plerumque Hörens ere&ior, frudiger magis 

 horizontaliter porre&us. 



Cal Spatba monophylla, convoluta, teres, baficraf. 

 fior, apice fubulata, acuta, glabra, ftriata, florem 

 feffilem includens, perfiftens, non nifi fruduma- 

 turo fubtus dehifcens vel devoluta, fubhorizon- 

 talis, fornicis inftar frudum tegens, fub florc« 

 fcentia genitalia per apicem emittit« 



Cor. Germini impofita, 2 - flora flofculis ejusdcm et 

 aequalis fitus, perfiftentibus : flofculo fingulo bi- 

 glumi: Glumif exterioribus lanceolatis, acutis, 

 convexis, ereäis, glabris j QU interioribm duplo 



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