The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 10 / Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

by William Curtis

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Briza Maxima. Great Quaking Grass.

Class and Order.

Triandria Digynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-valvis, multiflorus. Spicula disticha: valvulis cordatis, obtusis: interiore minuta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

BRIZA maxima spiculis cordatis, flosculis septendecim. Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 115. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 103.

GRAMEN tremulum maximum. Bauh. Pin. 2.

PHALARIS pratensis altera. Pearle Grasse. Ger. emac. p. 87. f. 3.

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