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220 CHLORIS MELVILLIAXA.

tantimi Jlsso. Panicula coarctata, ramis semiverticillatis. Glumae enerves, wferiore minori. Stamina 1-3. Stigmata joersistentia.

Obs. E graminibus unifloris proxime accedit Vilfae et Colpodio, affinitatem habet etiam quandam cum Sclimidtia Trattin. (Coleantlms Boem. et. Sch. si/st. 2,7;. 11), cui certe gluma nulla, et periantliium bivalve, probante valvula supe- riore diner vi.

Inter genera locustis bifloris Pliippsia affinis est Cata- brosae, conveniens glumis abbreviatis, perianthiis obtusis concavis et foliorum vaginis apice tantum fisso : differt locustis unifloris, caryopside tereti, nee lateraliter compressa.

��55. PHIPPSIA ALGIDA.

Agrostis algida, Soland. in Phijjj^s voj/.p. 200, cum de- scriptione accurata. lVa]ilenh,laj)p. p. 25, t. 1, ubi peri- antliium pro gluma, omnino praetervisa, depictum, et lodicula, perperam indivisa et aucta, pro perianthio univalvi. Flor. Ban. 1505, structuram eandem exliibens ac in Wahlenb. 1. c. JBr. in Ross voij. ed. 2, v. 2, j), 191 (Gramen sui generis.) {Ante, p. 177.)

Trichodium algidum, Svensk hot. 545, f. 2, ab ic. Walilenb. nuituata. Roem. et. Sch. sj/st. 2, p. 283.

Desc. Gra/i/en biunciale, glaberrimum, caespitosum. Culmi ipsa basi divisi ibique vaginis scariosis tecti. Folia linearia, obtusiuscula, laevia : lipda brevis, obtusissima, indivisa : vagina laxiuscula, Integra, ipso apice tantum fisso. Panicula coarctata, ramis semiverticillatis, paucifloris, laevi- bus. LocmtcE uniflorae. Gluma nana, bivalvis, inaequalis, valvulae muticae, obtusiusculae, concavae, hand carinatae, integrae, membranaceae ; inferior minor, enervis ; superior plus duplo major, ipso perianthio triplo circiter brevior, obsolete uninervis ; ambae saepissime post lapsum perian- thii cum rachide persistentes, inferiore quandoque decidua. Periantliium intra glumam brevissime pedicellatum : valvula inferior coiicava, ovato-lauceolata, trinervis, nervorum di- niidio inferiore bispidulo ; sup)erior ejusdem fere longitudinis

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