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Andropogon. - TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 2607 
involved in brown short hair. — Corol two-valved, the inner one end- 
ing in a short rigid arista.—Stamens three, &c. as in the. genus. ` 
Marr Frowers. Calyx and Corol as in the male, except that 
there is no arista to the corol. 
Obs. It is of a very coarse nature, Inever found it touched by 
cattle. 
|. 38. A. verticillatus. R. ; 
Erect. Leaves long, and very hairy; Panicle conical, ramifications, 
verticelled, three-flowered; one hermaphrodite, sessile, With two 
awns; and two-pedicelled, male, with one awn each. .. ie 
A native of mountains, flowering about the end of the wet season. 
Root woody, perennial.— Culms erect, simple, very leafy, smooth, 
round, towards the base solid, as thick as a small goose quill ; from. 
four to six feet high. — Leave’ approximated, eighteen inches long, 
and Bree quarters ct an inch broad ; margins set with minute spines, 
and particularly hairy on the inside near the base.—Panicles erect, . 
conical, lax, from eight to ten inches long, composed of many ver- 
ticelled, most simple, filiform, waved, bowing, three-flowered brauch- 
€s, as in A. aciculatus. 
 Hisuarn&oprrE Frowers sessile. Calyz, glume one-flowered, 
two-valved, iuner valve awned, both hairy, having the base surround- 
ed with much brown hair.—Corol one-valved, a long twisted awn 
occupying the place of the other.— Stamens three.—Siyle yellow. 
Mate Frowers pedicelled, one on each side the hermaphro. 
dite one; pedicels covered with brown hairs.—Calyz, exterior valve a 
little hairy, and aw ned, base involved in short brown hair.—- Corel. 
Two-valved.—- Stamens three. 
19. A. saccharoides. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 912. 
Sub-erect. Leaves remarkably long. Panicle obiong, composed . 
of simple, alternate, filiform, short-pedicelled, ereet, patent branch- 
' €S; neuter florets two-valved and pedicelled. cts 
A large, leafy, sub-erect species; a native of the mountainous’ - 
Parts of the northern Circars. i 
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