. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. case it is often a mere vestige. Flowerets of fertilespikelet 3; glumes herbaceous or chartaceous,longer than floweret; the lower floweret neuter,reduced to a memlDranous pale or 0; lowerpale of perfect floweret usually bifid at tip,short, narrow, long-awned or altogether re-duced to an awn; upper pale minute or 3. Styles 3, terminal. Stigmas elong-ated, feathery. Caryopsis oblong, free, witha dot-like hilum at the base of its ventral aspect--Perennial herbs,
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. case it is often a mere vestige. Flowerets of fertilespikelet 3; glumes herbaceous or chartaceous,longer than floweret; the lower floweret neuter,reduced to a memlDranous pale or 0; lowerpale of perfect floweret usually bifid at tip,short, narrow, long-awned or altogether re-duced to an awn; upper pale minute or 3. Styles 3, terminal. Stigmas elong-ated, feathery. Caryopsis oblong, free, witha dot-like hilum at the base of its ventral aspect--Perennial herbs, with spikelets imbricatedin solitary or clustered, non-bracteateor bract-ed, spikes, the rachis more or less hairy.* Spikes solitary at the apex of culm or itsbranches, linear. 1. A. fovcolatus, Del. 21 .3 to .4; glaucescent, tufted; root fibrous; culms erect or ascending, leafy, hirtulous at nodes, simple or branching. Leaves sjjaringly ciliate at lower jtart of margins a7id mouth of sheath. Spikes .04 to .05 long, .003 broad (without awns); «n„..nf spikelets 3-ranked; rachis and pedicels white- ^0^X17 Fig. GKAMINE^. (GRASS FAMILY.) 853 hairy, shorter than spikelet; lower floweret of spikelets neuter, reducedto a membranous pale; glumes of perfect spikelet short-ciliate at tip,with a pit on dorsal aspect lelow the tip; lower pale reduced to a long,slender, bent and twisted awn; upper pale obsolete; pales of stami-nate or neuter flowerets usually 0 — April—Sandy places; Calliirhoe;Aqabah. * * Spikes numerous^ terminal^ clustered, or digitate^ not hracted. 2. A. Iscliasnum, L. 2X .3 to .5; root-stoch creeping; culmserect, simple or sparingly branched above, glabrous or pid)erule?it atnodes. Leaves glaucous, hairy at base. Spikes 3-10, digitate, linear,.04 to .06 long, greyish, the rachis and pedicels of staminate spikeletswhite-hairy; lower floweret of perfect spikelet flattened at back, re-duced to a membranous pale; glumes coriaceous, the lower oblong-linear,
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