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Teibe XIL— TPJTICE.E. 
Spikelets usually open during flowering, sessile or snbsessile, 
arranged in a simple disticlious spike, the racliis of which is excavated 
to receive them and has at each notch a single spikelet containing 2 
to 30 perfect florets. Glumes 2 or 1. Styles absent ; stigmas 2, 
usually protruded at the base of the florets between the margins of 
the pales. Caryops dorsally compressed, with a furrow on the inner 
face. 
GENUS XL.—B R A 0 H Y P OD I U M. Pal de Beauv. 
Spikelets snbsessile, solitary', arranged alternately within their 
broadsides to the rachis in a distichous simple spike, at first cylin- 
drical, afterwards slightly laterally compressed, open during flower- 
ing, each containing 5 to 10 perfect florets. Glumes 2, opposite, 
placed right and left of the rachis, shorter than the florets, un- 
equal, mucronate, strongly-ribbed, subherbaceous. Pales 2 ; lower 
one linear-lanceolate, concave, entire, mucronate or awned, sub- 
herbaceous; upper pale entire and rounded at the apex, 2-ribbed, 
Lodicules 2, entire. Stamens 3. Stigmas 2, sessile, terminal, plumose, 
protruded at the sides of the floret between the basal margin of 
the pales. Caryops slightly adhering to the upper pale, downy at 
the apex, narrowly oblong, convex on the back, furrowed on the 
inner face. 
Tte name of this genus comes from jipaxvc, short, and icovc, foot, from the veiy 
short pedicels of the spikelets. 
SPECIES I — BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM- Horn. ^- Sdudtes, 
Plate MDCCCYII. 
P.'sirh. Ic. Fl. Gemi. et ITcIv. Vol. T. T:.^. CXXVL Fitrs. -177, 278 and -270. 
Billnf, Fl. Gall, et Cxerm. Exsiec. Xo. 4-.'. 
B. grticile, Tal.ih Beavv. Agrust. p. Iwl. . Ic. I. c. p. ;^2. 
Bromns sylvariiius, Sia'dh, Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 7-l\\ 
Fcstuca svlviitica. U<ul^. :>w. En-l. Fl. Vwl. I. p. IIv, n..n Mil 
TriticumWlviiticum, ilnuch; Kuath, EiiuiJ. Plant. Vol. I. p. 4Ao. Parn. Grass, of 
Brit. p. 132. 
Perennial. Ca3S[)itose. Rootstock not creeping, producing numerous 
barren stems or barren tufts and flowering stems, without stolons. 
Stems erect or arching-ascending, unbranched. Leaves flaccid, very 
broadly linear, gradually tapering from the middle and very acute, 
