112 Ihe Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
XXI. Gramen dactylon bicorne repens, folizs latis brevibus. Cat. p.33. Gramen 
dattylum repens Indicum {pica gemella Bob. hift. Ox. part. 3. p. 185. 
This Gra{$ has a jointed Root, creeping, and ftriking fibers from the 
Joints of the Root, as well as Stalk, where it touches the Ground, like the 
Caninum repens. \t hasbroad and {hort Leaves. The Stalk is aFoot long, at 
its end having two Spikes ftanding oppofite to one another, which are made 
up of feveral {mall flar Seeds, lying zmbricatim one on another the length 
of the Spikes, and of this there is a variety, the Spikes of fome being much 
groffer than others. 
It grows in moift low Grounds or Paftures in Famaica, and moft of the 
Caribves. 
XXII. Gramen dattylon bicorne fpicis purparafcentitus majus. Cat. p.34. Tab, 
65. Fig. 3. 
This has a crooked repent Stem, the Grafs broad and fhort, the Stalk 
fourteen Inches high, the Spikes, always two, ftanding not fo horizontal, 
but more towards a perpendicular than the precedent, like a pair of Horns, 
with many purple or blackifh Stamina on them. 
It grows in Holes and Places, where water has ftood in the Savannas. 
This is not the Gramen parvum Gangeticum, Gc. Plukenet. Phyt. Tab. gt. 
Fiz.6. as he conjectures in his Manti{[a, p. 93. This appears by comparing 
the Figures of his and this. 
XXIII. Gramen dactylon bicorne [picis purpurafcentibus minus. Cat. p.34. Tab. 
68. Fig. 1. 
It is in every thing like the immediately precedent, only in every refpect 
{maller, and ufually grows in the fame places. 
XXIV. Gramen dactylon bicorne minimum ariftis longis armatum, Cat. p. 34. 
Tab. 69. Fig. 1. 
This has feveral very {mall white fibrils for Roots, from which rife very ma- 
ny very {mall, narrow, capillary, pale green Leaves, about an Inch long. From 
the middle of thefe rife very {mall jointed round Stalks or Cw/mi, about 
two or three Inches high, having fo many Joints, each foint having a Leaf. 
At the top ftands its Panicle, divided into two Spikes, like two Horns, 
three quarters of Inch long, having a few Seeds, each of which has two 
long Arifte or Awns. 
I found it ina fmall Wood near the Banks of Rio-Cobre, below the Town 
on the fame fide of the River. - 
XXV. Gramen daétylon majus, pannicula longa, {picis plurimis nudis crafis. 
Cat. p. 34. Tab. 69. Fig. 2. 
This has feveral fibrous Roots from which rife many Leaves, inclofing the 
Stalk, and one another of each fide with a hard fharp edge or back, being 
about a Foot long, very green, and fomething like the Cyperus Grafies. 
From the middle of thefé (being very many of thefe Leaves together, 
making a great Tuft) rifes feveral three or four Foot long, folid Stalks 
or Culmi, as big asa Hens Quill, having fo many Joints, and at every Joint 
a Leaf like the others below. The Panicle is a Foot long, towards and at 
thé top divided into many fmall, three or four Inch long Spikes, not only 
at top but below it. Each of thefe has two rows of fimall, roundifh, com- 
prefsd Grains, lying one way (the Back of the Spike being naked) im- 
bricatim one over another, each of which contains within a pale green, - 
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