if the Genus Ehrhartii, 49 



minibus bieviores, divaricati. Stigmata albida, bijubata : 

 pilis longis. 

 Sewen oblongum, compreflinfculum, bafi oblique attenuatum, 

 glabrum, femidiaphanuni; valvulis cor. inclul'uni. 



Alii flofculi monoici, heimaphioditis in cadcm panicula 



mixti. 

 Mafc, Piflillum aboitiens. 

 Feni. Tilamcnta longilTima, capillaria abfque anthcris, circa 



piftillum fertile. 



Dr. Smith defcribed this fpecies after a dried fpecimcn in the col- 

 leclion of his friend Thouin at Paris, Having myfclf cultivated the 

 fame for fome years, it has been in my power to add a little to the 

 fpecific defcription. From the manner of growing of this kind, as 

 well as of others examined in the licrbariumof Tiiunberg, it fcema 

 that, producing many flioots or runners from the roots, they form 

 grafly turfs. What has appeared to me mofl fingular in the 

 jK. pdukca is, that the lowermoft peduncles of the panicle lean hoji- 

 zontally towards one fide, or downwards. The flowers are, perhaj^s, 

 the fmalieft of the genus. The lateral wrinkles (rugx) of the ex- 

 terior corolline valves alfo indicate an affinity to the foregoing, whofe 

 flowers they refemble in form. Their likenefs, however, to fome of 

 the panicum genus certainly juftifies the fpeciflc name given by Dr. 

 Smith. 



"3. EHRHARTA ramofa. 



ii]. glum is coroll. exterioribus fcabris retufis ; panicula coarclata; 



culmo ramoflflTimo fuffrutefcente. *^' 

 Mdica ramofa^ corohis glabris muticis, panicula coar<5lata, culmo 



ramofo. Thunb, prodr. p. 11. Sp. pL ed. IFild. p. 383. 

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