4 3 : i 2 à é * 
62 _ TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Trichodium. 
- In sandy deep swamps: New Jersey, Carolina, &e. Y. 
July, Aug. v.v. Near three feet high ; panicle 
close, coloured. 
71. LEERSIA. Gen. pl. 105. 
oryxoides. 1. L. panicula effusa, spiculis triandris patulis, glumis ob- 
longo-ovalibus carina ciliatis, Wil ila. sp. pl. 1. p. 325. 
i L. virginica. Willd. L. c. 
Icon.: Host. gram. 1. t. 35. ; 
In wet woods and ditches, frequent, 2%/.July. v.v. 
lenticularis. 2, L. paniculæ ramis subsolitariis, spiculis imbricatis, p 
mis orbiculatis ciliatis majusculis. Mich. fi- amer.1. 
p. de Fly-catch-grass. 
In sad woods in Tllinois and Virginia. 2. July. 
v.v. Thissi s and clegant grass found on the 
islands of Roanoak river in North th Carolina, and ob- 
served it catching flies in the same manner as Dionea 
muscipula : the valves of the corolla are nearly of the 
same structure as the leaves of that plant. I commu- 
nicated specimens with this particular circumstance to 
ees .. Dr. B. S. Barton of Philadelphia, who has made men- 
: a ee e E plants. 
#4. MILIUM. Gen. pL 110. Millet-grass, 
«mphicarpon. 1, M. panicule mold strictis simpliciusculis, floribus mas- - 
culis alternis pisi. floribus femineis in scapis 
unifloris radicalibus vaginatis, demum subterraneis. — 
In light sandy fiel of ee Jersey near Egg-harbour. 
. July, Aug. v. v. 
Culmi plures teretes, vaginati, sesquipedales et ultra. 
Folia lato-line iata, geniculis breviora, undique 
pilis long rigidis tuberculo insidentibus tecta. 
Vaginæ teretes, striati: suprema aphylla, mare folio- 
rum pilosæ. Ligula barbata. 
tate culmi, paucifiora,. stricta: ramis | 
simpliciusculis pedicellis florum clavatis, Glumis 
oblongis, acutis, nervosis, «qualibus, 
Floribus omnibus masculis, 
Flores feminei in scapis radicalibus unifloris basi v Y 
tis. Flores ante anthesin erecti, dein reflexi, a Ee 
turitatem seminis magni subrotundi subterranei. | 
This singular grass deserves particular examinatic iin 1 
the living plants, as I had no opportunity to describe 
