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30. S. argenteus. Kön. Rottb. gram. 51. t. 17. a 6. ins ipo Pl. 
ed. Willd. i. 811. 
Culms sub-erect, from four to eight inches high, semicculummar 
Head terminal, of many sub-sessile spikelets ; involucres from two to 
three, scales obtuse, monandrous. Seed roundish, compressed. 
Fimbristylis argentea. Vahl. Enum. ii. 294. 
Found on sandy pasture ground, growing in large tufts, with the 
exterior culins of the tuft curved. 3 i 
Root fibrous.—Culs erect, or ascending, mostly naked, from 
four to eight inches high, round on one side, and flattened on the 
other, sometimes with a groove on the flat side.— Leaves as in the 
former species.— Head or Umbellet terminal, composed of fromfif- — 
teen to twenty cylindrical, obtuse, sessile, silver-coloured, many- 
flowered- spikes.—Involucre two, three, or four-leaved, unequal— 
Scales oblong, obtuse; keel green, the rest silver-coloured. —8Sta-- 
men single — Stigma. two-cleft. Beed obcordate, compressed, 
smooth, pearl-coloured. 
31. s. glomeratus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 296. 
Culms six. inches high, semi-culumnar. Leaves numerous, from 
one to two inches long. . Umbel composed of from six to twelve 
ovate spikelets. Involucres and incolucels the length of the spikes 
Hind. Bura Nirbishee. 
Native of Coromandel and Bengal. ` 
39. S. arvensis. Retz. Obs. iv. p 11. 
Culms from six to twenty-four inches high, compressed, furrowed 
Leaves tortuose. Umbel simple. Involucre one or two-leaved, short- | 
er than theumbel. Scales omur; diandrous. Seed obcordate, s 
and dotted. 
` A native of various parts of — i ep in n low th places 
during the rainy season. 
Culms about six inches high, "compressed, and furrowed — 
Leaves radical, or — the lower portion of the culms, narroWa 
