TRIANDRIA—DIGYNIA.
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integra , aut erosula , margine inflexo ciliata ; valvainteriore multo minore , apice acute bifida , dentibusciliatis, ex sinu divisionis subinde, non semper, emit-tente aristam , ter vel quater calyce longiorem , arti-culatam, infra articulum contortam, fuscam, glabram,supra articulum attenuatam, scabndam, flavescentem,aut fulvam, arefactione refractam. Stamina tria. An-therae lineares, longiuscula , flava , vel flavo-rubidaStigmata duo , penicilliformia , purpurantia , laterali-ter exerta . Caryopsis obovata, turgido-compressa, sci-licet hinc convexa, inde planiuscula, extus ruffo-ful-va .
Flos masculus pedicellatus, pedicello villoso, apice scu-tellato . Calyx gluma chartacea, bivalvis, valvis sub-inaqualibus, lanceolatis, acuminatis, muticis, subpi-losis , ex viridi-purpurantibus ; exteriore latiore , pau-lulum breviore , subseptemnervi, apice subtridentata ,margine utrinque inflexo, albo-membranaceo, vel ru-bido , subciliato ; interiore angustiore , quinquenervi ,margine inflexo, ciliato. Gluma corollina inclusa, mem-branaceo-alba, vel rubida, hyalina , tenuissima, val-vis inaequalibus , quarum exterior calyce parum bre-vior , oblonga , obtusiuscula , margine ciliata , interiorminor , apice bidentata , item ciliata . Stamina ut inflore hermaphrodito.
HOLCUS.
Lin. Gen. p. 541. Juss. Gen. p. 3 o. Vent. Tabi. 2.p. 101. Leers. Iierb. tab. 7 . fig. 6. 7. Scopol. FI.Carn. edit. 2. tom. 2. pag. 275. n. 4o3. Smith. inRees’ s Cycl. v. 18., et Engl. FI. 1. pag. 107. nonR. Brown., nec Gaertn. Schrad.Fl.Germ. \. p.%\j.sect. 1. Rohl. cum Mert. et Koch. Deutschl. FI. 1.p. 549 - n. 66. Palis. Ess. d’une nuov. Agr. p. 87.tab. 17. fig- JO. Trin. Fund. agrost. p. i 64 - n. 128.Link. Hort. reg. Berol. descript. 1. p. 120. n. 67-
Flores polygami, monoeci . Locust® biflorse ; flo-sculo altero hermaphrodito , sessili; altero ma-sculo , pedicellato . Calyx communis gluma bi-valvis , valvis subinsequalibus . Flosculus her-maphroditus. Gluma corollina cartilaginea, bi-valvis , mutica, valvis subinsqualibus; exteriore