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reddifh Husk, or Follicle, a comprefsd, roundifh, pale, yellow, thining 
Seed. 
It grows in the Savannas near Mr. Batchelor's Houfe very plentifully. 
XXVI. Gramen dactylon, alopecuroidis facie, pannicula longifima é fpicis plu- 
rimis tomentofis conftante. Cat. p.3: Tab. 70. Fig. 4. i. 
This rifes to about four Foot high by a jointed Culmus, whofe Leaves are 
graflie, of about aFoot long, with a proportionable breadth. At top it has 
a Panicle appearing to be a Spike of about a Foot long, it is made up of 
many Spikes, fome of them upwards of an Inch long, rifing from all fides of 
the Stalk, or top of the Cw/mus, clofe by one another, having very {mall 
whitith Locufte oneach fide with a great quantity of white, long, foft Down, 
or Zomentum, making it appear fomething like a Fox-Tail-Graf{s, ifone look 
not very narrowly into its manner ef growing. | 
It grew in Mrs Gays Plantation in the open Ground at Gwanaboa, by her 
Plantain. Walk. | 
Dr. Plukenet in his Mantiff. p.95. queftions if this be not.the Gramen digi= 
tatum hir[utum. }..B. with how much Reafon any body may fee. I think I 
had fome Reafon from the Title of that of Dr. Herman to Judge it.to be 
that defcribed by him, though he, who knows. nothing of it, {ays I, did. it 
incpte. ee ee nO aff 
XXVIL Gramen dactylon pannicula longa, ¢ [picts, plurimis.,gracilioribus pare 
puress vel viridibus mollibus conftante. Cat. p,34.\Tab. 70. Fig.2% 
This has feveral fibrils for its Root, from whence rifes a crooked Stalk or 
Culmus, about a Foot high, made up of three or four Joints, each havin 
a three or four Inch long graffie Leaf, covering the istertodia of the Stalk; 
which at about fix Inches from the Root is divided into many flender Spikes, 
making a fix Inches long Panicle. Tlie Spikes ftand out on every fide of the 
Culmus, towards and at the top, at fome {mall.diftance from one another, 
each of them being about two Inches long, very flender, foft, purple, or 
green, and made up of feveral naked Grains, or Chaff (/ocufte) fet to it by 
Tufts alternatively, firft on one fide, then on another. — 
It grew in Mr. Batchelor’s Plantation near the red Hills. 
This can not be the Gramen I[chamon Virginianum, numerofis fpicis, Cc. 
Pluken. Alm. p.475. Which Dr. Plukenct conjectures may be the fame, in 
his Mantiff. p. 94. this having neither black fpots, nor hirfute or undulated 
Leaves. 
XXVIII. Gramen dactylon, pannicula longa, [picis plurimis gracilioribus ‘on 
longis, Cat. p. 34. Tab. 70. Fig. 3. | 
This has a fibrous Root, many Stalks a Foot and a half long. Its Spikes 
at top are many very {mall, or flender and long, the Panicle being divided 
into Spikes before it comes to the top of the Stalk. 
It grows every where in the Savanzas, | | ae : 
This is not the Gramen I[cheamon Virginianum numerofs [picis, Orc. F lukenet, 
Alm, p.175. having neither hirfuted, fpotted, nor undulated Leaves, as he 
fays it has, vid. Maati{]. p. 94. - 
XXIX. Gramini tremulo affine, panhiculatum elezans majus, {picis minoribus & 
longioribus. Cat. p. 34. Tab. 71. Fig. 1. 
This has a fibrous Root, from whence rifes a round, pale, green, folid 
Stalk or Culmus, about a Foot and a half high, having Leaves nine Inches 
long at bgrtom, incompafling the Stalk. The Panicle is fix Inches long, the 
top of the Cu/mms being branch’d out into feveral Branches, on which are fer 
G ¢ feveral 
