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258 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA; Andropogon, | 
pressed, striated, a little hairy, rounded at the apex ; margins fringed 
with hairs ; ĉnvolucre smooth, glossy, keeled, pointed.— Coro! of the” 
liermaphrodite flower one-valved ; the arista which is pretty long and” 
twisted, occupies the place of a second ; that of the male two-valved, 
the inner one slender and bifid. ; E 
Obs. Cattle ae eat ue but not greedily, 
E A. contortus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 904. à 
" Moncicous. Spikes solitary : ieri ior flowers male or neuter 5 
and awuless; superior flowers one female and awned, the other. 
male and awnless. ; 
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oid in tufts on rich pasture jõid. 
Culms near the base spreading a little, there compressed E ra- 
mous , the rest from one to two feet high, erect, round, and smooth; z 
joints smooth.— Leaves below bifarious, middle-sized, upper ‘side T 
scattered with a few hairs, margins and mouths of the sheaths hairy. 
— Spikes always single, terminal, bowing, cylindric ; rachis jointed, 
waved, round, below where it is occupied by the male and neuter 
flowers God ; above where tlie female flowers are, itis “covered E 
with much, shor. brown hair.— Flowers numerous, imbiicátéd: an 
pairs ; on the lower half of the spike they are all neuter; or male; and 
awnless, one sessile, one pedicelled ; on the upper: half — 
flower is female, and the pedicelled one male. 
Mare or neuter Flowers. — Calyx two-valved, naw e. 
exterior valvelet green, and covettd with stiff white hair, inier mé 
membranaceous, and smooth, except the margins, ere Res b. 
ciliate. ~ Coro! two-valved, membranaceous, bead gins slightly cili- A 
ate. Stamens three or none. ~ BORA EEE iain 2 : 
Femaue Frowers: Coly incivibved desi" rigid, êm 
bracing the corol on all sides, brown, a little hairy.—Corol oiva” T 
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