6o Dr. SwART2*s Botanical Hijlory 



;/-' involutse; fubaequales Linteriore pauilo majore, infima bafi 



excifa, 



VahuIiV inter tores glabrae, muticae. Exterior lato-lanceolata, 



^^^t ^ X retufa, carinata, carina fubciliata, breviffime acuminata; 



interior minor, acuta, aplce emarginata, tenera, alba, nitens. 



Tuberculum minutiflimum ad bafm inter valvulas interiores 



* - - t corollae, feflile. 



Nedlarii petala oblonga, bafi carnofa lutea, fuperne latiora, 



retufa, margine crenulata,albida, radiatovenola. 

 FTiamenta 6, filiformia, brevia, Anihera; lineares, fiavse, 

 utrinque bifidse, bafi obtufae, apice extrorfum poUiniferae, 

 Germen ovatum. Styii duo, iati, erecli^ contigui. Stigmata 

 longa, albida, cait. conformia. 

 If the preceding deferved the appellation of longiflora, this alfo 

 merits the name of gigantea, being the largeft known of its genus, 

 and having the appearance of a reed. The flowers are in like man- 

 ner proportionally large, and have, on minute inquiry, a flri6l 

 agreement with the generic charadter. They can by no means be 

 united with the Melica^ though the plant, as to the ramification and 

 fhape of the panicle, has fome refemblance to the AT. ciliata. It 

 cannot at all be compared with the Aira^ becaufe it has neither a 

 calyx bijlorus nor the habit of them. The interior coroUine valves 

 have probably been miftaken for the fuperfluous floret. The diffe- 

 rent colour and figure of the arijia fuggefts the idea of fuch a floret 

 more than in the other fpecies, notwithflanding its Ihortnefs. The 

 calycine glumes are flained with purple or brown, and are two- 

 thirds the length of the corolla, which abounds with fhining hairs. 



9' EH RH ART A bulbofa. 



E. glumis,coroll. exterioribus obovatis emarginatis rugofis ariflatis j 

 panieula firaplici laxa. 



J), bulbofa^ 



