A spike of tufted awned spikelets, in triplets at each notch of the rachis, and one or two of each triplet barren.
The long-awned species of Festuca have compact stiff panicles and narrow or setaceous leaves (see p.
Agropyrum repens is also often awned and may be described here (see also p.
Spike cylindrical, of sessile or nearly sessile awned spikelets, densely crowded round the axis, the whole resembling a fox’s brush or cat’s tail.
The most obviously awned species of Festuca have more or less setaceous leaves and contracted inflorescences (see p.
The sessile spikelet is awned and consists of four glumes.
The fourth glume is often awned or reduced to an awn.
The rachilla is produced beyond the fourth glume and it terminates in anawned rudimentary glume.
The first glume is lanceolate, acute and awnedbetween two teeth, 7-nerved and scaberulous.
The second glume is as long as the first, thinner, with a median keel, laterally compressed, awned or not.
The first and the second glumes are narrow, keeled, 1-nerved, awned or not and persistent.
Always taller; spikes heavier; perigynium more inflated, strongly nerved and prominently toothed, no longer or shorter than the conspicuously awned and spreading scale.
Lower glumes united at base, the floweringawned on the back.
It has a brownish rotate corolla, very hairy within, and with 5 awnedscales in the throat.
Culms often creeping at base; leaves ciliate at base; spikes 4--5; lower glume awnedand the flowering one pointed.
Achene terete, 2-awned 57 Rays pistillate and fertile; the disk-flowers also perfect and fertile.
Achene much flattened laterally, 1--2-awned 53 Achene flattened parallel with the scales and chaff.
Sepals 5, linear or oblong, concave, awned at the apex.
Leaves obovate or oblong, lyrately pinnatifid or deeply sinuate-lobed; cup of the fruit fringed by the awned scales.
The species of Heteropogon, a cosmopolitan genus in the warmer parts of the world, have stronglyawned spikelets.
Aristida and Stipa are large and widely distributed genera, occurring especially on open plains and steppes; the conspicuously awned persistent flowering glume forms an efficient means of dispersing the grain.
Spikelet of Anthoxanthum (enlarged) without the two lower barren glumes, showing the two upper awned barren glumes (g) and the flower.
The reader is probably acquainted with the Fescue Grass, with its awned flowers arranged in one-sided panicles.
Brome grasses generally are known by their loose panicles of flowers, lanceolate and compressed spikelets, and awned florets enclosed in unequal glumes; and B.
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