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TAB. 85. GLYCERIA MICHAUXH.
R a d i c e subrepente; culmo erecto, simplici, subangulato; vaginis vix apice fissis
foliisque scabriusculis, complicatis , exteroe striato-sulcatis; panicula aequali, diff
u s a ; spiculis 5-6-floris5 floribus diandris.
P o a nervata p^illd. Sp. pi. i. p. 38^., Pen. Synops. i. p. Sg., Purs/i FL i. p. y<).,
fVilkl. Enum. p. loS.
s t r i a t a Lam. IÌÌ. i. p. i83., Mich. FL i. p. 6g., Pers. Syn. i. p. 8^.
P o a lineata Pers. Syn. i. p.
C r e s c a ID P eus j lvani a , Virginia et T e r r a Nova.
Radix siibrepens. Culmus erectus, simplex, subaogulatus, obsolete striatus, glaber, sj-pedali.
s; iiodis imberbibus. Folia linearía, acutata, plana, complicata, externe sulcato-striata, atrinque
scabriuscula, S-g-poUicaria, duas lineas lata. Vaginse teretes, sulcato-striate, scabriusculae,
liauci fiss® vel nonnisi apice fissaj, a-3-pollicares, internodiis longiores j in speciminibus cultìs
multo breviores. Ligula membranacea, hyalina, glabra, laciniata. Panicula ramosa, sexpoUicaris;
ramis geminis, patnlis, tardius patentissimis, apice flexuosis rbachiijue sulcato-angulatis,
scabris. Spiculaj pedicellataj, sexflorce cum rudimento stipitiformi fioris septimi, ovata», compressiusculffi,
n- i j lineas long®, virides. Flores parum disUntes, disticbo-imbricali; rhacbi
glabra, artìculata. Gluma; du®, membranacea, concav», ovata», acutaUe, uninervia, glabra,
supei'ne utrinque dente obtuso instruct®, in»quales, viridi-purpurascentes; inferior superiore
duplo, flore contiguo triplo brevior. Paleie duce; inferior ovato-elliptica, obtusa, septemnervia,
viridis, superne purpurascens, rigidido-membranacea, apice diaphana, concava, nervis prominentibus,
scabriusculis, apice evanescentìbus; palea superior vis brevior, subelliptica, bicarinata,
dorso pl.miuscula, marginibus inflexis, obtusa, apice retuso-emarginata, carinis scabriusculis.
Squamula una ( duffi connata ? ), antica, ti'uncata, carnoso-membranacea, diaphana, ovario
duplo triplove bre\-ior. Stamina duo, hypogyna. Filamenta capillacea, elongata, glabra. Anther
® oblong®, utrinque bifid®, lobis acutiusculis, bilocidares, glabr®, flavid®. PoUinis granula
minutissima, subrotunda, hyallna. Ovarium obovatutu, apice rotundatum, paleis parallele
compressiosculmii, glabrum. Styli duo, terminales, distantes, divergentes, elongati. Stigmata
ramoso-plumosa, albidaj pilis bifidis vel dichotomis, apice 2-3-dentatìs, hyalinis. Caryopsis
elliptica, embryoni parallele compressiuscula, stylis reflexis coronata, brevissime stipitata, l®vis,
glabra, nitida, nigro-castanea, interne a basi usque supra medium macula obsoleta pallidiore
liueari-oblonga oceData, magnitudine grani Papaveris dubii, paleis obtecta, cum iis decidua.
Pericarpium tenue, membranaceum, adli®rens- Albumen farinaceum. Embryo mmutus, lenticularis,
ovato-subrotundus, basi esteriori albuminis adliarens ipsoque quadruplo bi-evior, Pluniula
crassa, obtusa, libera ; radicala cotyledoni adnata ?, aculiuscula.
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