Panicum. - TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA: - 999 
compound, secund, erect. Spikelets alternate, sessile, secund, ex- 
panding a little. Rachis, both common and partial three-sided.— 
Flowers, very numerous ; three-fold below, above in pairs, all ses- 
sile, or nearly so ; their insertion surrounded, with smail bristles, in, 
volucre-like.—Ca/yz, only the inuer valve awned, all striated, hairy 
and hispid.— Coro, complete ; male florets, besides the usual herma- 
phrodite one. ` ee : pr 
Obs. ‘This is a coarse species. Cattle are not fond of it. 
24. P. crus corvi. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 337. . 
Culns, creeping at the base. Leaves downy. Spikes from six to 
ten, three times longer than their interstices. Calyces downy. Corol 
three-valved. Seed oblong, obtuse, smooth. aoe 
A middle-sized, delicate, rare species, found on pasture ground. 
Culms, filiform, creeping at the base, above nearly erect, ramous, 
— Leaves. soft, downy; sheath hairy.— Spikes compound, secund, 
from one to three inches long. Spikelets from four to twelve, alter- 
nate, adpressed, secund, about three-fourths of an inch long ; some- 
times there is a very small ramification at the lower part of one or 
two. Rachis, common, two-furrowed ; partial, three-sided, downy, 
Flowers paired, or single, in two rows; both pedicelled ; pedicels 
hairy, of unequal length, but both short.—Calyx striated, very 
downy.—Corol, the neuter valve is here present.—Seed oblong, : 
smooth, shining white. 
25. P, colonum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 338. 
Culms, creeping at the base. Spikes from six to ten, short. Flow- 
ers three-fold, sub-sessile. Glumes of the calyces three-nerved, y 
- Corol three-valved ; seed roundish, smooth, three-nerved. Sisk 
Beng. Shama. There is a reddish variety, called Lal-shamq. —— 
T. eling. Woondoo-gaddi. ET. soe SE a da 
Delights in rich pasture ground. LE e 
Culms, below resting on the ground, and rooting; above sub-erect, 4 
that part is from one to two feet high, branchy, a little compressed, - 
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