98. GRAMINEJ;. 
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a terminal bristle. Each spikelet with a comb-like bract 
at its base. Panicle spikelike, 1-sided. Nut closely coated 
with the pales. 
41. Dactylis. G1. unequal, herbaceous, many-flowered ; 
lower keeled. Lotver pale compressed, keeled, 5-veined ; 
dorsal vein fringed and excurrent just below the tip as a 
short awn. Spikelets crowded, suhsecund. Nut free. 
42. Festuca. G1. unequal, herbaceous, many-flowered. 
Lower pale rounded on the back, very acute, or ivith the 
dorsal vein excurrent at or just below the tip as an awn ; 
lateral veins slightly converging and vanishingbelow the tip. 
Upper pales minutely ciliate on the ribs. Styles terminal. 
Nut furrowed, adhering to the pales. — Rachis with acute 
angles. Sheaths of the leaves divided to the base. 
43. Beomxts. G1. unequal, herbaceous, many-flowered ; loiver 
l-veined, upper 3 — b-veined. Fl. lanceolate, compressed. 
Lower pale with a long awn, (usually) founded on 3 veins, 
from below the tip. Styles below the top of the ovary. Nut 
furrowed, adhering to the pales. — Sheaths of the 1. divided 
halfway down. 
44. Sereafaxcus. G1. unequal, herbaceous, many-flowered, 
lower 3 — b-veined, dipper 7 — 9-veined. Fl. oblong, turgid. 
Lower pale with a short awn, (usually) founded on 3 veins, 
from below the tip. Styles below the top of the ovary. Nut 
furrowed, adhering to the pales. — Sheaths of the 1. scarcely 
divided halfway down.. Spikelets narrower upwards. 
B. Inflorescence spikelike ; bearing the spikelets in holloius of 
the rachis. 
Tr. XII. HORDEIE.E. Spikelets solitary or -1 or 3 together, 
subsessile on opposite sides of a channelled and toothed 
jointed rachis. Uppermost fl. often barren. Style very 
short. (Lateral spikelets often stalked in Hordeiim.) 
t Spikelets very shortly stalked, or subsessile. 
45. BRACHYPODnjJi. Gl. opposite, unequal, many-flowered, 
their edges towards the rachis. Upper pale coarsely 
fringed on the ribs. — The unequal gl. distinguish this 
from Triticum. 
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