. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. er flower reduced to a pale,neuter. Perfect sinlce: glumes 2, longer than floweret, the outerherbaceous, with scarious margin, unequally bifid, the inner hyaline,cymbiform, bifid, with a slender awn between the teeth. Pales hyaline,the lower deeply cleft, with a long, bent and twisted awn, the uppershorter, narrower, entire. Lodicles 2, truncate, glabrous. Stamens 2, terminal, feathery. Caryopsis oblong. Staminate spike :glumes 3, herbaceous, the lowest bifid,
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. er flower reduced to a pale,neuter. Perfect sinlce: glumes 2, longer than floweret, the outerherbaceous, with scarious margin, unequally bifid, the inner hyaline,cymbiform, bifid, with a slender awn between the teeth. Pales hyaline,the lower deeply cleft, with a long, bent and twisted awn, the uppershorter, narrower, entire. Lodicles 2, truncate, glabrous. Stamens 2, terminal, feathery. Caryopsis oblong. Staminate spike :glumes 3, herbaceous, the lowest bifid, with a slender awn, the uppertwo undivided. Pales hyaline, without awns, the inner much smaller,often 0 — Herbs with twin sj^ikes. P. distacliya, L. If .3 to .8, tufted; culms erect, glabrous, or slightly hairy; mouths of sheaths bearded. long, .005 broad excluding awns; rachis and pedicels hairy; awnof upper glume of fertile spikelet about as long as glume; of lowerpale 4-5 times as long as pale — April and May — Rocky and stonyplaces; coast to middle mountain zone; interior plains; GRAMINE^. (GBASS FAMILY.) 851 11. , Willd. compressed, jointed with axis, hirsute, in pairs at eachliollow or at the lower hollows in threes, one or the two lateral sessile,2-flowered, the other or middle one pedicelled, appressed to the axis,sterile. Glumes 2, somewhat coriaceous, Ian- pj^^ 373^ ceolate, concave, acuminate or somewhatcaudate, ciliate at margin. Lower floweretstaminate, with 1 pale, upper perfect, with3, hyaline pales, the lower concave, the upperciliate at keel. Stamens 3, with linear 3, terminal, long; stigmas oblong, compressed, free, with adot-like, basilar hilum — Herbs with thespikelets arranged in a cylindrical, hirsute spike. Two lateral fertile, and one£. ]lir§UtU§, Vahl. 2f .3 to .6; root- central sterile, spikelets ofstock indurated, furnished with stout fibres; Eii
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