GENUS IX.— A NTHOXANTHUM. Linn. 
Spikelets persistent, subsessile or very shortly stalked, arranged in a 
rather dense spikelike panicle sometimes sliirhtly interrupted towards 
the base, laterally compressed, slightly biconvex, closed during flower- 
ing, each containing a single perfect floret, with 2 neuter florets beneath 
it. Glumes 2, very unequal, the lower one smaller, keeled, scarious, 
pointed or mucronate, the upper one as long as or longer than the 
florets, keeled with 2 ribs besides the keel, subherbaceous, mucronate. 
Pales of the perfect floret 2, minute, rounded on the back, not awned, 
scarious; pale of the neuter florets 1, emarginate, a%\aicd about the 
middle or towards the base, the awn of the lower floret straight, of 
the upper one bent. Lodicules absent. Stamens 2. Styles rather 
long; stigmas very long, slender, hairy, protruded at the apex of the 
flower. Caryops glabrous, free, oval-oblong, slightly laterally com- 
pressed, not channelled. 
The derivation of the name of this f^enus of Grasses is from aydoc, a flower, and 
SPECIES I._ANTHOXANTHUM ODOBATUM. Lin 
Plate MDCXCYI. 
n :rl. le. Fl. Gorm. et TMv. Trl. T. T:ib. CLXXXII. Fi-^. '•■'''> to 
L:IL,I, VI (Jail, ot Germ. Exsicc.Xo. V-irr.]. 
Ilootstock perennial. Panicle spikelike, rather dense, obk 
cylindrical or fusiform-cylindrical, continuous or more or less in 
rupted towards the base. Glumes about ns long as the slwtis of 
neuter floret. 
A. odomtum, Bmnort. A-rost. Bolir. P. Fl Fh dn Centre de la 
Stem and glumes glabroiii 
