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Glumes 2, chartaceous, strongly flattened laterally or conduplicate, awnless, bristly-ciliate on the keels, closed, nearly equal in length, but the lower much broader, enclosing the flat grain.

The spikelet nearly always consists of four glumes, the first or the first and the second being firmer and coriaceous or chartaceous.

It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.

The second glume is chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved and with a smooth rounded keel.

The fourth glume is chartaceous, shining, smooth ovate-oblong, apex cuspidate, with a few hairs on the edges at the apex, faintly 5-nerved.