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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...in a whorl, forming a kind of involucre round the three inner ones, which, as in Chrysopogon, are one sessile between two pedicellatc ones. In a few species the number of spikelets is raised to nine, or even to eleven, by the intervention of one or even two pairs of spikelets between the involucral and the terminal ones. These slight differences in the number or in the pedicellation of the spikelets have induced the proposal of distinct genera for most of the species, and several of them have been adopted by Andersson in a monograph most carefully worked up in as far as the materials at his command admitted, but in which, for want of access to a sufliciently rich library, he is much mistaken as to several of the synonyms quoted. These proposed genera are:--1. Aristaria, Jungh., for A. frondosa, Br. (A. Junghulmiana, Nees), which forms the section Heterelytron of Andersson, but not J uughuhn's genus of that name. 2. Perobaclme, Presl, is A. arzmdinacea, Roxb., forming Andersson's subsection Chrysanth istiric. 3. Andersson's subsection Euanthistiria for the common A. ciliata, Linn., and its immediate allies, to which some botanists would restrict the genus. Andersson distinguishes twelve species, adding at the same time that they might well all be reduced to varieties of a single widely-spread species. 4. Androscepia, Brongn. (H'eterel.ytron, J ungh.), was founded originally on the A. gigantea, Cav., but became a very unnatural group when made to include A. (Androscepia) anathera, Anders., which very closely resembles A. (Euanthistiria) minuta, Anders., and a variety armata, Anders., of A. gigantea, which is much nearer to the A. (Perobac7zne)arund1I1zacea. 5. Iseilema, Anders., containing two East-Indian and one...
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George Bentham was a notable taxonimist and the nephew of the great Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
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