. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 4. E. ^gyptiaca, Del. Fig. .15 to .3. Panicle ^aZe,contracted, .05long, ,, linear-oblong, branch-es short, whorled, not ciliateat base; spikelets subsessile,linear, acute, .005 long, .001broad, imbricated over eachother, 15-20-flowered, the axisflexuous; lower pale oblong-lanceolate, obtusish, the lateralnerves prominent; upper palecurved — January to May —Sands; Gaza; Ghor-es-Safieh,and southward to Egypt. * * Perennials, stout, erect; leaves linear,
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 4. E. ^gyptiaca, Del. Fig. .15 to .3. Panicle ^aZe,contracted, .05long, ,, linear-oblong, branch-es short, whorled, not ciliateat base; spikelets subsessile,linear, acute, .005 long, .001broad, imbricated over eachother, 15-20-flowered, the axisflexuous; lower pale oblong-lanceolate, obtusish, the lateralnerves prominent; upper palecurved — January to May —Sands; Gaza; Ghor-es-Safieh,and southward to Egypt. * * Perennials, stout, erect; leaves linear, hroad, convohite at tij). 5. E. cyuo§iiroide§, R. et Sch. IfJIalfd. Birdm. QaM. 1 to 2, tufted; root-stock thick, creeping; culms terete, leafy. Fig. 405. a d (a) Tip of panicle ofE. jEgyptiaca, over-ripe, (b) A spikelet,magnified 3 (a) Tipof panicle of Eragrostis cynosuroides. (6) A spikelet of the same magnified 2 diameters. 880 GRAMINEiE. (GRASS FAMILY.) Leaves 2-ranked, elongated. Panicle cylindrical, .25 to .3 long, spike-like, Mpimiate, flattened; spikelets sessile along the stiff, hairy, sessilebranches, imbricated, G-12-flowered, oblong, .005 to .Ollong, flattened;lower glume acute, shorter and narrower than upper; lower pale some-what coriaceous, white or turningblackish, oblong-ovate, obtusish, keelscabrous, the lateral nerve somewhat prominent —December to March-Dry fields and waysides; Jaffa, and southward to Egypt; Ghor-es-Safieh. 66. MELICA, L. Melic laterally compressed, 2-5-flowered. The lower 1-2flowerets perfect, the upper 1-3 sterile, tabescent, imbricated in a tur-binate or oblong-cylindrical body. Glumes membranous, concave, aslong as flowerets or shorter. Pales muticous, the lower somewhatcarSlaginous, concave, the back 5-oo-nerved, the upper 2-keeled, 2-toothed at tip —
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