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equal, patent. Pales equal ; lower boatshaped, compressed, 
embracing the inner. Styles long, distinct. Stigmas fea- 
thery. 
5. Spartes'a. Spikes upright, in a raceme. Spikelets 1- 
flowered, awnless. Gl. unequal ; upper lanceolate. Pales 
imequal ; lower boatshaped, compressed. Styles long, 
united half- war up. Stigmas feathery. 
6. KxAPPiA. Lijlorescence a somewhat 1-sided raceme. GL 
r not keeled, blimt. Fl. 1. Pale 1, scarious, very hairy, 
blimt, not awned. 
Tv.lll. PHALARIDEjE. Panicled. Spikelets laterally c<m- 
pressed, l-Jloicered, with 1 or 2 glimielike inferior rudiments ; 
or 1 or 2 inferior male flowers. Gl. equal, covering the 
flowers. Styles long. Stigmas filiform. 
7. Ph.alabis. Gl. 2, boatshaped, keeled, membranous, nearly 
equal, exceeding the flower. Pales coriaceous, unequal, 
closely investing the fruit. Rudimentary fl. 1 — 2, scale- 
like. 
8. AxTHOXANTHTM. Gl. 2, Unequal, membranous; lower 
small, l-veined ; upper exceeding the fl., 3-veined. Pales 
scarious. Stam. 2. Rudimentaiy fl. 2, scalelike, bifid, 
awned on the back. 
9. HiEROCHLOE. Gl. 2, nearly equal, membranous, about 
equalling the spikelet. Fl. 3; 2 lower male, 3-androus, 
upper pale with 2 keels ; upper perfect, 2-androus, upper 
pale with 1 keel. 
Tr. IV. PHLEIXE^. Inflorescence dense, spikelike. Spike- 
lets laterally compressed, 1-Jloivered or with a superior rudi- 
ment. Gl. nearly equal, covering the flowei^. Styles long. 
Stigmas filiform. 
10. Phxeoi. Gl. compressed, keeled, parallel at the midrib, 
ti-uncate, with a terminal seta, or acute. Fl. 1. Pales 2, 
membranous ; lower 3-veined, blunt, without awns, or with 
a minute central point. 
11. Alopecubus. Gl. compressed, connate below, membra- 
nous, awnless. Fl. 1. Pale 1, scarious, 5-veined, awned 
on the back. 
Tr. V. SESLERIE^. Panicle spikelike. Spikelets laterally 
compressed, with 2 or more fimvers. Styles 0 or very short. 
Stigmas very long, filiform. 
12. Seslehia. Spikelets sessile, imbricate all round. Gl. 
2 — 6-flowered, nearly or quite equalling the spikelet. Lower 
