a m4 
; 73. 
" ‘WRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
rufa. Ex. This genus appears to be very closely allied to 
Panicum, and. somewhat to Miliiim, particularly to the 
M. amphicarpon of Pursh. The Milium villoswm of Ja- 
maica may probably belong to this genus. 
PHALARIS, L. (Canary-Grass.) 
Calix 1-flowered, 2-valved; valves subovate 
or lanceolate, carinate, equal and nerved, in- 
“cluding the corolla, © Corolla 2-valved, mostly 
- hairy atthe base ® 
74. 
Flowers generally in terminal cylindric or ovate spikes. 
In P. canariensis, the corolla consists of 4 valves, in P. 
aquatica of 3. 
Species. 1. P. maritima (Arunda arenaria. Lin.) This 
may be considered as intermediate between Arun- 
da and Phalaris.—On the coast of New-Jersey. Z. Col- 
lins, Esq. In Europe considered of great importance for 
arresting and consolidating the movable sands of the sea- 
coast. The rest of this genus is chiefly confired to the 
south of Europe and Northern Africa (Barbary.) 
BRUCHMANDNIA. Jacquin. PHALARts eru- 
~- ceformis. L. 
ie. 
Cali 2-valved, 1-2-flowered, valves semiob- A 
cordate, inflated, equal. Corolla 2-valved, includ- 
es Z _ ed within the calix, valves unequal, the dorsal 
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valve setaceously acuminate; one of the flowers 
__ often abortive or wanting. 
_ Culm erect, panicle irregularly spiked, spikelets inter- ~ 
- fupted and subdivided; flowers disposed in 2 rows on 
one side of the rachis. (Valves of the calix somewhat mar- _ 
gined or slightly carinate, gibbous, and abruptly acute, 
with scariose margins, in the American plant generally 
‘A-flowered, corolla glumes unequal, the dorsal yalve con-— 
tiles to a by a short setaceous muc ; ee 
rather acute; stigmata long, filiform and hir- 
