. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. yptian Grass. 0 A to .6; culms prostrate below, geniculate, rooting atjoints, branching. Spikes 3-5, .05 long, .005 broad, mucronate by ex-currence of rachis; lower glume oblong, acute to acuminate, upperovate, larger, rounded at tip, retuse, with an awn as long as itself inthe notch; lower pale mucronate-aristate, the lateral nerves obsolete —Spring —Sidon (Gaill. in Fi. Or.). 50. PAPPOPHORUM, Spikelets laterally compr
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. yptian Grass. 0 A to .6; culms prostrate below, geniculate, rooting atjoints, branching. Spikes 3-5, .05 long, .005 broad, mucronate by ex-currence of rachis; lower glume oblong, acute to acuminate, upperovate, larger, rounded at tip, retuse, with an awn as long as itself inthe notch; lower pale mucronate-aristate, the lateral nerves obsolete —Spring —Sidon (Gaill. in Fi. Or.). 50. PAPPOPHORUM, Spikelets laterally compressed, 2-3-flowered,the lowest floweret perfect, the upper staminateor neuter. Glumes lanceolate, many-nerved,muticous, longer than flowerets. Lower palesomewhat leathery, concave, 9-nerved, the nervesexcurrent in straight, subulate awns. Upper palemembranous, 2-keeled, retuse — Tufted annualsor perennials, with spike-like panicle. P. Foxii, Post. 0? .06 to .1, jDubescent;culms geniculate-ascendiug. Leaves narrow-linear, convolute, mouth of sheath cylindrical, ,02 to .03 long, .006 broad; 113. (a) Spikelet of P. Foxii. (b) Lower pale 6 diameters.
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