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99g" - j | TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. ~ > Panicum. 
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tate, filiform, secund ; flowers paired, one sessile the other pedicel- > 
led. Calyx with the accessary valve, minute ; inner one half the length 
of the corol or middle one ; these last two are three-nerved, and vil- — 
lous on the margin. 
From China it was brought to the Botanic Gatien, cheat 
thrives: well, and biossoms the whole year, but chiefly during the — 
rains. 
tion next.the spikes erect, naked, coloured and filiform.—Leaves 
soft and small, ciliate, with a few long hairs at the base.—Spihes gê- 4 
-nerally from two to four issuing from the same point, very slender, 
secund. Rachis flexuose.—Flowers, in a pair, ode sessile.—Calyr 
one-ilowered, flower hermaphrodite; accessary valve exceedingly 
minute, but by careful observations may always be found; second 
valve as long as the co:ol, the inner one only half their length, wh t 
_is one of the best specific marks ; these two ha e three smooth nerves 
on the back, and their margins are slightly bearded. —Corol. two. 
valved. 
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16. p. lineare. Linn. Sp: Pi. od, Willd. 1. 844. 
Culms ramous, creeping, very delicate, and smooth, a large por- . 
Sub- erect, smooth." Spikes from two to six, ‘digitate, pow ur 
Flowers all hermaphrodite, awnless, and pedicelled. Calycine valves, p i 
the. accessary one minute; the inner two equaliing the corol, and. Z 
three-nerv ved. 
P. lineare. Burm. Ind. p. 25. t. 10. J.B i eem uuu. : 
tation of this pretty delicate grass. - i 
A native of China, accidently introduced from thence into th 
. Botanic Garden, where it is in flower the whole year; but like most - 
other grasses most luxuriant during the rains." It has a great re- An 
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semblance to P. dactylon, ciliare, filiforme, and. aegypticum, 
. does not creep like them. The flowers are less regularly paired, 
minute, smooth, and obtuse, the two inner valves. ofi the calyx eq 
"and. as long as the corol, and the accessary one very minute, 
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