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86. STIPA, 
_by the interposition of small callosities at their base. 
“Valves of thecalix subulate, often more than an inch long. 
TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
distinct at the base; calix valves carinate, with very long 
subulate points, and twice the length of the corolla; co- 
rolla cylindric, st:pitate; awns smooth, nearly equal, very 
sone spirally convolute, and growing together towards 
e base. 
Culm with very few articulations, (2 to 3 feet high.) 
Sheaths of the radical leaves mostly tomentose; leaves 
smooth, very long and subulate. Branches erect, remov- 
ed from the culm, and the flowers often from each other 
lowers distinctly stipitate, stipe villous; awns twisted 
rena at the base, nearly equal, more than 2 inches 
Ng. 
In the sandy pine forests of Georgia, a few miles from 
Augusta. 
Of this genus there are 5 other species described as . 
growing in the West Indies and South America, 1 in the “ 
island of, Teneriffe, 7 in India or the neighbouring islands, 
2 at the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in New Holland, 1 in i 
Spain, and 3 in Barbary, of which the 4. pungens is a : 
shrub with plumose awns, 
<p aig sag 
1, (Feather-grass, Long-awned 
grass.) ee 
_ than the calix, 2-valved; valves involute and 
truncate. dwn terminal, very long, deciduous, 
and contorted atthe base. == . 
- straight and without pubescence.” The African yariet 
ther obtuse, distinctly articulated to the awn, which is 
Calix 2-valved, 1-flowered. Corolla shorter 
‘The habitus of this genus is so very similar to that of 
the preceding that we shall omit the repetition. Here, 
however, the corolla glume is only terminated by a —_ 
awn, but often of prodigious length, in some species ele 
rope as described by Linnzus with the “ awns (nearly) 
one third of its length, the stipe pubescent, the seed ra-_ 
