. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ut, almost recd-like. Leaves linear, acuminate, sca-brous, .01 or more broad. Spike very dense, comjwund, .1 to .25 long,.015 to .02 thick, more or less interrupted; bristles of involucre 2-3,shorter than spikelet or longer, retrorsely scabrous; lower glume one-hulf as long as upper; upper glume and lower pale of neutral floweretalike, barely shorter than minutely dotted-lined, fertile floweret; upperpale of neutral floweret much shorter or 0 — Summer — Cultivated andru
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ut, almost recd-like. Leaves linear, acuminate, sca-brous, .01 or more broad. Spike very dense, comjwund, .1 to .25 long,.015 to .02 thick, more or less interrupted; bristles of involucre 2-3,shorter than spikelet or longer, retrorsely scabrous; lower glume one-hulf as long as upper; upper glume and lower pale of neutral floweretalike, barely shorter than minutely dotted-lined, fertile floweret; upperpale of neutral floweret much shorter or 0 — Summer — Cultivated andrun wild. 3. PEBfSflSETUM. Pal. Pennisktum. Spikelets compressed at back, with an involucre of many bristlesabove the joint of the pedicel, deciduous with the spikelet, the outerIjristles scabrous, the inner plumose. Flowerets 2, the upper perfect,the lower staminate or neutral, in which latter case it is reduced to apale or sometimes to an awn. Glumes membranous, the lower lower pale of each floweret acute or acuminate, enclosing the up-per, which is as long but narrower. Lodicles 2, minute, or 0. Stamens. GRAMINEiE. (GRASS FAMILY.) 847 S. Ovary glabrous. Styles S, terminal, long, more or less connate,stigmas feathery, «xserted. Caryopsis oblong, flattened at back, witha dot-like hilum at base of ventral surface, enclosed in pales but free —Herbs, with 1-3 spikelets in a cluster, in simple spikes. 1. P. dicliotomum. Forsk. 71 Badah. Fig. Retam, .3 to .6; culms rws/i- HTce, the loimr j^ari proliferous at nodes, much-branched, forming a bush with aspect of Pani-cum turgidum. Sheaths of culms leafless, open,scarious, lanceolate, persistent; leaves of bran-ches from a somewhat dilated sheath, rigid,convolute, the uj^permost often forming aninvolucre to the spike. Spike cylindrical, .07to .1 long, .015 to .02 in diameter, rachis sca-brous ; bristles of involucre of spikelets numer-ous, unequal, wMte, once and a half as long asspikelet; spikelets
Size: 1510px × 1655px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidfloraofsyria, bookyear1896
