. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 168 PANICACE^. Found along tlie coast in the Southern States, also in the West Indies, Mexico, Buenos Ayres, Sandwich Islands, Australia. 34. (25). OlYRA L. Syst. Ed. 10. 1201 (1759). Mapira Adans. Fam. 2: 39 (1763). Lithachnc Beauv. Agrost. 135, /. 24, f. 2 (1813). liuddia 15ertol. in oinise. Sc. Bologn. 3:410 (1819). Sfrepfiium Sehrad. Nces, Agrost. Bras. 298 (1829).
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 168 PANICACE^. Found along tlie coast in the Southern States, also in the West Indies, Mexico, Buenos Ayres, Sandwich Islands, Australia. 34. (25). OlYRA L. Syst. Ed. 10. 1201 (1759). Mapira Adans. Fam. 2: 39 (1763). Lithachnc Beauv. Agrost. 135, /. 24, f. 2 (1813). liuddia 15ertol. in oinise. Sc. Bologn. 3:410 (1819). Sfrepfiium Sehrad. Nces, Agrost. Bras. 298 (1829). Spikelots 1-flowcred, nionweious in ])ani- cles, those which are staminato, on tlie iowor portion of the panicle or in soi>arato panicles, destitute of empty glumes, lloral glume uar- row and acuminate, l-nerved. palca 2-nerve(l, nearly as loug as its glume. Stuuiens 3, Pistillate spikclets usually in the upper por- tion of the i)anicle. ovate: euipty glumes her- haceous, pointed or awiu'd. cipial, or the first longer; floral ghime and paloii much shorter, obtuse, cartilaginous. Stamens 0. Styles 2, united at the base, (iraiu firndy enclosed, but not adherent. lilades of the leaves broad, netted-veined, often borne on short Fig. 'm.—Stniotaplirum petioles; panicles terminal or axillary. sccun,h,tnm. A v'fion Si)ecies twentv; one of them be- ot spike; a, spikelnt. ' longs to tropical Africa, the others to tropical America. Some authors reduce nearly all of the species to varieties of O. hiflfoJia. 1. 0. latifolia L. 1. c. 0. 2io,niciilata Sw. Obs. liot. 347 (1791). Culms hard, branched. Leaves more or less puherulent; sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule a mere rijig; blades flat, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 7-14 cm. long. I'anicles terminal or axillary, simple, oval, 10-17 ctn. long, rays scattered or in threes to sevens, rather stout. Fertile spikclets ovoid, acuniimite, em})ty glumes with involute ti})s; first 11-13-nervt'd. 7-12 mm. Please n
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