10.1 
GRAMINE JE. § 
Hovdenm Hall.helv. i533. II. vulg. Sui. FI. helv. i. 
p. 7 4 . 
H. vulgare L , Sp.pL 125 . TFilld . Sp.pl . l.p. 472, 
jPojV. Arce. meth. 4 . p. 602. Ah?/. Gram. 3 iy, 
Decand. FL fr. 1680. 
Gram . austr* 3 . tab. 34 . Blachw. tab. 423 . 
Schleiclu l . c. p. i5. Thom , L c. p. i4. 
Radix annua, fibrosa. 
Culmi teretes , eredi, glabri, laeves, bi-et tripe¬ 
dales, saepe toti foliosi. 
Folia glabra , erecla , longa laiaque, utrinque 
scabra, plana, margine albo scabroque, basi auri¬ 
culis solutis , lineari-falcatis , coloratis aucta. Va- 
ginoe teretes, glabrae, laeves, ut folia laete virides® 
Ligula brevissima, truncata. 
Spica oblonga , erectiuscula vel nutans , hexas¬ 
ticha quidem, sed propter series spicularam inter¬ 
mediarum ceteris majorum prominulas quasi tetras¬ 
ticha et subcom pressa. Rachis flexuosa, articulata, 
dentibus approximatis , internodiis compressis, hinc 
convexis, inde excavatis , margine subvillosis. 
Spicula ternae cuivis racheos denti insidentes , 
longe aristalae, hermaphroditae, (laterales tamen 
minores et saepe steriles), adpressae, inter se paral¬ 
lela. 
Calyces involncriformes , bivalves , ternati, val¬ 
vulis fere aequalibus, in eodem plano silis, lineari¬ 
bus , albidis , angustissimis , corolla brevioribus , 
V>: apice breviter aristalis. 
