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two-ftamens. Had he done otherwife, a 
young botanift muft have found himfelf muck 
perplexed \ the claffic character being the firft 
that he would refer to, he could never find 
the anthoxanthum in a clafs, the effential 
character of which was three-ftamens, though* 
from it's general appearance, he could not 
expect to find it feparated from the reft of the 
gralfes. There are fome peculiarities in the 
fructification of anthoxanthum odoratum which 
are worth attending to : a fpecimen of it 
Ihould be dhTected, and compared with a 
magnified drawing of it's different parts. It 
agrees with many other gralTes in it's fmall 
fpikes, containing only one flower, but differs 
from the whole of the tribe in the following 
particulars : one of the valves of the glume, 
or calyx, is fmall and membraneous, the other 
large, and wrapping up, as it were, the whole of 
the fructification. Thefe glumes have been ob- 
ferved not to open and expand themfelves, as 
in the avena genus, and other grafTes, but the 
llarnens and piftils have the appearance of 
pufliing themfelves out of the glumes, w T hich 
remain clofed ; the glumes of the corol are 
not like thofe of other grafTes, but are re- 
markably hairy, each having an awn, the 
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