BOTANY. 
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Chae. Gen. Gluma subaequivalvis, locustam trifloram aequans. Perianthia bivalvia, 
latei'alia mascula, triandra ; terminate bermaphroditum, diandrum. 
Obs. Relationem veram Anthoxanthi ad Hierochloem, in prodr. flor. nov. hoU. p. 209, pri- 
mum indicatam, optime confirmat planta Javanica intermedia structure a D. Horsfield detecta; 
in hac enim perianthium lateralium inferius masculum bivalve, su'perius univalve, neutrum : 
terminate bermaphroditum. Hujus novi generis (Ataxia) habitus potius est Anthoxanthi, 
quocum etiam gluma inoequivalvi quadrat. 
Cum Hierochloe characteribus nonnullls convenit Arthrochloa (Holcus Pa/zV. Trinii, 
et Wahtenb. non Linneei gen. et sp. pt. ed. prima, nec Schreberi nec G&rtneri ;) qum tamen 
facile distinguitur ab hoc genere uti et ab Aira et Arhenathero, gluma cum apice pedicelli 
ai’ticulata et una cum locusta decidua. 
66. Hierochloe alpina, Poem, et Sch. syst. 2. p)- Ross' voy. ed. 2. 
vot. 2. p. 194. Richardson in FranktirCs journ. p. 731. 
Holcus alpinus, Swartz in Schrad. neue journ. 2. si. 2. p. 45. t. 3. Wahtenb. lapp. 
p. 31. t. 2. Svensk bot. 438. Ftor. Dan. 1508. Giesecke greenl. in Brewster's Edin. 
encyctop. 
67. Hierochloe pauciflora, racemo simplici, flosculo masculo superiore brevissime se- 
tigero, foliis culmi brevissimis ; radicalibus involutis. 
Desc. Gramen 3-5-unciale. Radix repens. Cutmi erecti, infra foliati supra nudi, 
striati. Fotia radicatia subulata, marginibus involutis, culmo aliquoties breviora; cutmea, 
abbreviata, late subulata, marginibus inflexis, vaglnis suis laxiusculis multotles breviora. Ra^ 
cemus erectus, simplex vel subsimplex, pauciflorus, pedlcellis Imvibus. Locustw ovatse, acutse, 
trlflorm. GtumcB bivalves, scariosso, ovatie, concavm, acutiusculae, glaberrlmae, locustam sub- 
mquantes, yalvula inferiore manifeste minore. Ftoscuti tolerates masculi, triandri, bivalves, 
chartacei, vatvuta inferior ovata, concava, marginibus infra medium nudlusculis supra omnino 
nudis, flosculi superioris mox sub apice emarginato setigera, seta brevissima stricta valvulam 
vix superante ; flosculi inferioris mutica v. per-obsolete setigera ; utriusque valvula superior 
angustior, linearis, dinervis, semibifida. Floscutus terminatis hermaphroditus, diander, mu- 
ticus : vatvuta inferior concava, quinqulnervis, extra medium dorso lateribusque pilosius- 
culis, chartacea, fusca, apice scarioso ; superior linearis, hyalina, glabra, acuta, indivisa, uni- 
nervis. Lodicutce 2, collaterales, lanceolatse, acuminatse, hyalina^, ovario longiores. Ovarium 
glabrum. Styti 2. Stigmata alba, dense plumosa. 
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