Orders. GLUMIFLOR/E. 
Rush or grass-like herbs, with narrow sheathing 
lea. Flow, without a perianth or with a few hypo- 
gynous scales or bristles, subtended by imbricate 
membranous bracts (glumes). Pistil always supe- 
rior and i-celled, with i basal erect anatropous 
ovule. Endosperm starchy. 
Family 8. GRAMINB^. Herbs, with + roundish 
stems; internodes usually hollow. Lea. often 2- 
ranked, furnished with a ligule (or hairs) at the 
junction of sheath and lamina ; sheath usually split 
to the base. Flowers arranged in spikelets, usually 
^ , mostly with a 2-nerved (inner) palea opposite 
to the flowering glume, without a perianth (unless 
the lodicules are considered as such). Sta. 3 (2 in 
Anthoxanthum, 6 in Bambusa), anthers versatile. 
Stigmas usually 2, + feathery. Fr. a caryopsis ; 
embryo provided with a scutellum and placed 
laterally at the base of the endosperm ; radicle 
surrounded by a sheath (coleorhiza) . 
Panicum, Setaria, Leersia, Phalaris (inch Digra^ 
phis), Anthoxanthum, Hierochloe, Milium, 
Phleum, Alopecurus, Polypogon, Agrostis, Cala- 
magrostis, Ammophila, Holcus, Aira, Deschamp- 
sia, Corynephorus, Trisetum, Avena, Arrhena- 
therum, Sesleria, Phragmites, Molinia, Koeleria, 
Catabrosa, Melica, Briza, Dactylis, Cynosurus, 
Poa, Glyceria, Festuca, Bromus, Brachy podium, 
Spartina, Cynodon, Nardus, Lolium, Agropy- 
rum, Triticum, Hordeum, Elymus, [Zea, Saccha- 
rum, Oryza, Stipa, Lagurus, Gynerium, Secale, 
BambusaJ\ 
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