. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. lumes imequal, oblong, the lower 1-nerved, shorter, the upper3-nerved; lower pale oblong, obtuse, prominently ^-nerxed and grooved—Spring — Salt marshes between Hamath and Palmyra. 4. S. rigida, L. 0 .1 to .3. Leaves linear, acuminate. Paniclerigid, oblong-lanceolate, .05 to .1 long, .01 to .03 broad, with branchesand pedicels 3-angled; spikelets 5-11-flowered, linear-oblong, .005 toto .01 long,. 002 broad, loose, pedicellate ; glumes lanceolate; lower paleoblong, convo
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. lumes imequal, oblong, the lower 1-nerved, shorter, the upper3-nerved; lower pale oblong, obtuse, prominently ^-nerxed and grooved—Spring — Salt marshes between Hamath and Palmyra. 4. S. rigida, L. 0 .1 to .3. Leaves linear, acuminate. Paniclerigid, oblong-lanceolate, .05 to .1 long, .01 to .03 broad, with branchesand pedicels 3-angled; spikelets 5-11-flowered, linear-oblong, .005 toto .01 long,. 002 broad, loose, pedicellate ; glumes lanceolate; lower paleoblong, convolute, obsoletely keeled and nerved—Spring — Grassy placesand roadsides; everywhere. Fig. 412. ft Branches of panicle jointed, brittle, bear-ing sjyikdets atforTcn. Glumes acute. 5. S. Mempliitica, Spreng. 0 .1to .2. Sheaths of leaves dilated, open,the uppermost often forming a spathe tothe panicle. Panicle oblong, stragglingy 05 to 08 or 1 long 01 to 03 broad ^.^ \\ ^^ scleropoa lorKea, the spikelets at first erect, at length Mempliitica. M angles from G0-130°, linear, acute at both ends, .007 to .01 long, .001. GRAMINE^. (grass FAMILY.) 801 to .0015 broad; glumes lanceolate, keeled, more or less unequal; lowerpales appressed, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate or aristulate,keeled, 3-nerved — Spring—Sands; coast to middle mountain zone;Sinai to Deserts about Dead Sea, Palmyra, and north-eastward. Variesby insensible gradations into S. dicliotoma, Forsk. 80. BROMUS, L. Brome Grass. Spikelets pedicelled, more or less laterally compressed, many-ilowered, the upper flowerets often tabescent, the axis brittle. Glumesusually unequal, shorter than the adjacent floweret, usually pale herbaceous, concave or keeled, usually bidentate or bifid attip, aristate at or below tip, rarely muticous; upper pale membranous,3-keeled, entire or retuse, pectinate at keels with stiff hairs — Annualsor perennials, panicles more or less open. * Glumes unequal, the low
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