BOTANY. 
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Char. Gen. Gluma subBequivalvis, locustam trifloram sequans. Perianthia bivalvia, 
later alia mascula, triandra ; terminals bermaphroditum, diandrum. 
Ohs. Relationem veram Antboxanthl ad Hierochloem, in prodr. flor, nov. hoU. p. 209, pri- 
mum indicatam, optime confirmat planta Javanicaintermedias structurse a D. Horsfield detecta; 
in hac enim perianthium lateralium inferius masculum bivalve, su'perius univalve, neutrum : 
terminals bermaphroditum. Hujus novi generis (Ataxia) habitus potius est Antboxanthi, 
quocum etiam gluma inoequivalvi quadrat. 
Cum Hierochloe characteribus nonnuUis convenit Artbrochloa (Holcus Palis. Trinii, 
et Wahlenh. non Linncei gen. et sp. pi. ed. prima, nec Schreberi nec Gartneri ;) quae tamen 
facile distinguitur ab hoc genere uti et ab Aira et Arhenatbero, gluma cum apice pedicelli 
articulata et una cum locusta decidua. 
66. Hierochloe alpina, Poem, et Sch. syst. 2. p. 515. Br. in Ross' voy. ed. 2. 
vol. 2. p. 194. Richardson in Franklin's j own. j)- 131. 
Holcus alpinus, Sway'tz in Schrad. neue journ. 2. si. 2. p. 45. t. 3. Wahlenh. lapp. 
p. 31. t. 2. Svsnsk hot. 438. Flor. Dan. 1508. Giesecke greenl. in Brewster's Edin. 
encyclop. 
67. Hierochloe pauciflora, racemo simplicl, flosculo masculo superiore brevissime se- 
tigero, folds culmi brevissimis ; radicalibus involutis. 
Desc. Gramen 3-5-unciale. Radix repens. Culmi erecti, infra foliati supra nudi, 
striati. Folia radicalia subulata, marginibus involutis, cubno aliquotles breviora; culmea 
abbreviata, late subulata, marginibus inflexis, vaginis suis laxlusculls multoties breviora. jRo- 
cemus erectus, simplex vel subsimplex, pauclflorus, pedicellis Isevibus. Locusts, ovatse, acutae, 
tridora?. Glumce bivalves, scariosae, ovatse, concavse, acutiusculse, glaberrimse, locustam sub- 
sequantes, valvula inferiore manifeste minore. Flosculi later ales masculi, triandri, bivalves, 
chartacei, valvula inferior ovata, concava, marginibus infra medium nudiusculis supra omnino 
nudis, flosculi superiorls mox sub apice emarginato setigera, seta brevissima stricta valvulam 
vix superante ; flosculi Inferioris mutica v. per-obsolete setigera ; utriusque valvula superior 
angustior, linearis, dlnervis, semibifida. Flosculus terminalis hermaphroditus, diander, mu- 
ticus : valvula inferior concava, quinquinervis, extra medium dorso lateribusque pilosius- 
culis, chartacea, fusca, apice scarioso ; superior bnearis, hyalina, glabra, acuta, indivisa, uni- 
nervis. Lodiculce 2, collaterales, lanceolatse, acuminatae, hyalinse, ovario longiores. Ovarium 
glabrum. Styli 2. Stigmata alba, dense plumosa. 
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