The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. 115 
that the Panicle was not fparfe, but fet almoft like a Spike, in fo much that 
i took it for a Panic Grafs. The Seeds wete very {mall, oblong, com- 
prefled of a whitifh colour, and fhining, lying in two white Membranes or 
Locafte, which were covered with two green ones, both very {mall Foor- 
Stalks, as others of this Kind. The upper Joint. of the Culms was very 
long, and I believe the GrafS very large, although I remember neither its 
Leaves nor joints. | i 
I do not remembet the particular place of ‘its prowth, but think I found 
it in Famaica. ths SASRARGL te ts 
Dr: Plakenet thinks chat this Plant may be his Gramen Mihacenm Americanum 
wetjus pantcula minore. Alm. p.176. Phyt. Tab.9o. Pig. 7. or that this laft re- 
cited Plant may be my next following Grafs; but he is ftrangely miftaken, 
for there is no refemblance, as-any one may fee ‘by their Figures and De- 
{criptions. | See his Mantiff. p. 95. ~ "9D AYO 
XXXL Gramen wiliacenm, panicnla viridi, vel purpurea. Cat: p34. Tab.72. 
Tas ae ass : 3 
| This Grak has a jointed Stalk a Foot long, did Leaves, the under pare 
whereof ‘enclofes the Stalk, which is rough, ‘nine Inches: long, one’ broad 
near the Stalk, where broadeft, and whence it decreafes to thé ehd;being, to- 
wards atid at the top, rough, hdvirig a Panicle about three Inches long, 
made of {everal two ot three Inch‘long purple, or green Spikes, ftanding fparfe 
after the manner of millet on every hand. Each of thefe “is made up of a 
great many roundiih, naked, purplé;‘‘or green “Ldcuffe, si: tothe Spike 
by a {mall petiolus, having a very ‘fmall Graiffor Seed, within a Follicle, 
like that of Millet. ae yes : 3 
It grows in clayie moift Grounds in feveral Plantations. 
ety b 
XXXIV. Gramen miliacenm viride foliis latis brevibus, panicula. capillacea, 
feming albo. Cat. p.35. Tab. 72. Fig. 3. OLS Sst: ¥ Wily AMAT 
This has feyeral Fibers for a Root, fhooting forth a very frequently jointed, 
and fometimes brariched'Culmss, ot Stalk, one Foot and a half high. Every 
Joint has one’ Leafithe underpart of which covets part of the next. /nternodinm, 
is rough, and of a pale preea colour; the other-is about ‘an Inch or more 
long, and half as broad, of a véry°green colour, and’ hairy on the edges. 
The Panicle is atrop ‘three Inches: long, ‘fiiade up'of feveral Spikes. or 
Branches, on which‘are fet, by ‘very fmall, long, Petiol/, no bigger than 
Hairs: the Seed being very fmall, roundifh, white, and lodged in green 
Chaff like other the Millets. 
It grew in the Woods that were dry and fhady. 
XXXV. Gramen pratenfe panicula ce foliis anguftiffimis, [plcis brevibus muticis 
locuftis minimis. Cat. p.35. Tab. 73. Fig. 1. 7 
This Grafs has many {mall, thready, white, and capillary Roots, which 
being join’d together makes a great Tuft, and fend forth a great many ‘five 
Inches long, narrow, or almoft round Leaves, being dry, and of a pale 
green colour. Amongft thefe comes up the Stalks, round; folid, hard, 
fmooth, one Foot anda half -high, of a clay colour, having {mall Leavesto 
nine Inches high, whence it is a very narrow Panicle, being divided into 
many three quarters of an Inch long Branches, fometimes black, and fome- 
times gray, having feveral fmall, oblong, reddifh Seed, in a gray, or black, 
naked Husk, both Seed, and it, being fo fimall, as fcarce difcernible to the 
naked Eye, 
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