Andropogon: TRIANDRIA LDIGYNIAS —.—— 208 
one valve, and the place of the second valve is occupied by a long 
twisted arista, . In the male one it is two-valved. ^ 
Obs, It is a coarse gne. Cattle are not fond of ito 
11. A. pertusus. Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv.992. | 
Near the root creeping. Spikes from four to eight, digitate, pes 
dicelled, exterior valve of the, sessile, awned, hermaphrodite calyx 
with a pit on the back ; male or neuter corol one-valved , 
Holcus pertusus. Kin. Linn. Mant, : 301. See e: 
- Is found on old | pasture ground, which i is case shaded ^n trêese 
Culms creeping near the base, &c. as Ip the last two species ; joints. 
bearded.— Leaves small, ciliate; mouths of the sheaths bearded.- 
Spikes from four to eight, in other respects exactly as in the last spe- 
cles .— Flowers, the specific mark is to be found in the pit of the exte- 
ror valves of the calyx of the hermaphrodite flowers, as in A. stric- - 
tus; and A. punctatus, to be described ; an arista occupies the. place 
of the second valve of the corol ; the valvelets. of the calyx are both. 
awnless, 
. Obs. I should doubt this — Kie s Holcus pte rg he bd 
not Rented it out to mé himself, : 
EO A. Bladi. Linn. p Pi, «i. Willd. àv, 920. .. Hat m 
_ Sub-scandent ; ; joints pubescent. Spikes from three to six, ii 
panicled, Calyces lanceolate; male corols. two-valved ; sherpa: 
dite ones one-valved with an arista; Powers pares 
Beng. Loari. - , 
A native of dinis and road earl ut. chiefiy a old petu 
ulna as in ‘the dice andit aueciess deinft much mishi 
eaves. the same.— Spikes from four to eight, short-pedicelled, ine- 
Strled. round’ the last half. in each of the. culms; i in other respects 
they are. as in the last described species.— The flowers. resembles 
those of that species, but are a little more e remote Cal anb Çbreli 
same as in A, scandens, ; à 
