. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. short mucro at sinus, upper short, stigmas feathery — Perennials, with stout stems, andlong, spike-like panicles. A. arenaria, L. 2f 1 or more, growing in clumps from a creep-ing, woody root-stock. Leaves long, involute, sharp-pointed. to .3 long, .015 to .02 thick; glumes and pales about .01 long;mucro of lower pale as long as teeth — April — Sands; Haifa. 37. , L. Hares-Tail Grass. Spikelets laterally flattened, with onefertile flow
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. short mucro at sinus, upper short, stigmas feathery — Perennials, with stout stems, andlong, spike-like panicles. A. arenaria, L. 2f 1 or more, growing in clumps from a creep-ing, woody root-stock. Leaves long, involute, sharp-pointed. to .3 long, .015 to .02 thick; glumes and pales about .01 long;mucro of lower pale as long as teeth — April — Sands; Haifa. 37. , L. Hares-Tail Grass. Spikelets laterally flattened, with onefertile floweret, and the rudiment of a sec-ond. Glumes subulate-tapering, feathery,longer than floweret. Lower pale bifid-aristate, with a dorsal, bent awn, insertedbelow sinus; upper pale narrower, 2-keeled— Annuals, with dense, ovate, woolly heads. li. ovatu§, L. 0 .1 to .4, erect orascending. Leaves villous. Heads .015 long, .015 thick; central awn nearlytwice as long as lateral ones, and all theawns long-exserted — Spring — Sandy anddry places especially near coast. 3§. AIRA, L. Hair Grass. Fia. Head of Lagurus ovatus. Spikelets with 2, perfect flowerets, and often with the rudiment ofa third. Glumes nearly equal, usually longerthan pales. Lower pale rounded at back,usually bifid or with two bristles at tip, and atwisted or bent but not club-shaped awn in-serted on the back, or muticous. Upper pale2-keeied, 2-toothed. Stigmas 2, sessile, plu-mose— Annuals, with spikelets panicled oncapillary pedicels. A. capillaris, Host. 0 .; culmsslender. Leaves setaceous. Panicle tricho-tomous, diffuse, .05 to .08 long; pedicelsseveral times as long as spikelets, scabrous;glumes oblong, scabrous, eroded at tip, mucro-nate; lower floweret usually muticous; lowerpale of upper floweret with a bent awn at mid-dle of back, twice as long as glumes — April Tip of panicle of June — Dry, sandy places. 39. CORYNEPHORUS, P. de B. Club Grass. Spikele
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