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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Teibe L— ORYZEiE. 
Spikelets closed during flowering, arranged in a lax open panicle, 
laterally compressed, each containing a single perfect or unisexual 
floret (in the latter case monoecious or monceciou sly-polygamous), some- 
times accompanied by the rudiments of 1 or 2 other florets. Glumes 
both absent or rudimentary. Pales glumelike, equal or nearly so, 
the lower one keeled, 5- to 7-ribbed, the upper one 3- or rarely 5- 
ribbed. Stamens 6, 3, 2, or 1. Styles short; stigmas 2, protruded at 
the base of the floret, between the margins of the pales. Caryops 
free, laterally compressed, not furrowed. 
GENUS L—L E E R S I A. Soland. 
Spikelets shortly stalked, arranged in a lax open panicle, sometimes 
enclosed in the uppermost leaf- sheath, laterally compressed, closed 
during flowering, each containing a single perfect flower, or in some 
of the spikelets a single male flower without the rudiment of another. 
Glumes absent. Pales 2, equal, boatshaped-compressed and keeled, 
not awned, parchmentlike. Lodicules 2, membranous. Stamens 6, 
3, 2, or 1. Styles 2, short, terminal; stigma feathery, protruded at 
the sides of the flower. Caryops glabrous, free from but closely 
enyeloped by the pales, strongly laterally compressed, not furrowed. 
A genus of grasses named after a botanist, Mr. J. D. Leers. There is but one 
British species. 
SPECIES I._L EE RSI A OETZOIDES. Solaml 
Plate SIDCLXXXVI. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, ct Heir. Yol.^ I. Tab. CLXXXI. Fig. 494. 
[ ' talaris oryzoiiles, Lulh. Spec. PI. p. 61. 
A^prella oryzoides. Lam. Btcnorf. Agrost. Belg. p. 133. 
Panicle compound, subpolygamous, its primary branches bare of 
spikelets at the base, spreading (when the panicle is exserted). 
Spikelets shortly stalked, loosely imbricated, halt-oval-oblong, flat. 
Lower pale sn-ongly bristly-ciliate. Stamens 3 in the perfect florets. 
In wet places, by the sides of stream .s, ditches, and ponds, and 
in the shallow water at their edges. Very local along the edges of 
marsh ditches in Henfield Level, Sussex. Abundant in the Boldre 
Eiver, Hants, for nearly three miles along the stream above and below 
