^3 Dr. S w A R T z's Botanical Hijiory 



"^•'t Tahulce coroU'mcc mieriores minotes, ovato-lanceolat^, actitSG', 

 * '^' earinatse, muticae, nervofx, glaberrimns ; interiore parum 

 minore anguilfiore teneriore: dorfofubbicarinata. 

 Neciarii petala mmutilTima, ovata, fuperne latiora, lacero- 



ciliata, albida. 

 Fiiamenta fex, brevia. Anther a obloTigo-Iinearcs, utrinque 



fiffje, apice extrorfum pollen fundentes. 

 Germen oblongum. Styll duo. Stigmata congenerum, parva. 



This is one of the larger kinds, with a geniculated culm, broad 

 leaves, and a much branched panicle. The flowers are remarkable 

 for their pointed exterior corolline glumes, and their long arljice. 

 The glumes are often tranfverfally wrinkled, but not fo much as in 

 the E, mnematea. One of the calycine glumes is uncommonly fmall. 

 The number of the ftamina I have, in all the flowers I examined, 

 found to be really fix, although Dr. Smith has feen only three. Ac- 

 cordingly, 1 have been doubtful whether or not the plants of Smith 

 and Thunberg Ihould be confidered as diflferent ; but having good rea- 

 fon to believe that the unnamed fpecimen of JE. hngiflora in the Lin- 

 nsean herbarium was communicated originally by Thunberg, and alio 

 finding his E, arijlata coinciding with the defcription of Dr. Smith's 

 E. longlfiora^ it is moft likely they are not different fpecies. The 

 particular diftin^lion appears to confift in the length of the ariji^e 

 and of the- glumes, in the faid defcription (lyled only mucronai(V *.. 



-^ 8. E.HRHARTA gigantea. 



E. glumis corollinis exterioribus hirfutisariftatis ;; panicula coar6lata 

 fubverticillata -, c«/w2o arundinaceo, foliis involutis. - 



* They appear to be one and the fame fpecies. Nothing Is more variable than tHc 



kngth of arijia in grafies. J, E. Smith, 



Melica 



