900 — TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Panicum, 
smooth.— Leaves bodie to i bifarious, short, smooth, tapering 
from the base to a sharp point.— Spikes compound, secund. Spikes 
lets, fram six to twelve, alternate, somewhat remote, secund. Rachis, 
both common and partial three-sided; the two sides from whence 
thé spikelets issue concave.— Flowers two or three from the same - 
point, generally three ; all sessile, or very nearly so; sometimes - 
few smali bristles mixed with them. — Calyx as in the genus, all the 
glumes three-nerved, a little hairy, and scabrous.— Corol, the neu- 
ter valve is here present, but no stamens.— Seed broad, oval, smooth, ly. 
a little pointed; three-nerved. 
Obs.. Cattle are very fond of it, yet it is not deli in these 
parts. E E 
26. P. grossartum. Lian. Sp. PI. ed. Willd: i. 349. 
Culms, creeping. "Leaves soft and downy. Spikes from six to ten; 
flowers solitary, sub-sessile. Corol three-yalved. Seed oblong, 
acute, transversely rugose. es | z 
-Loves fresh pasture ground, 
Culms, iù a good soil creeping to a great length, in a pasi soil 
nearly erect — Leaves, tapering from the base toa fine point, some- 
what downy, and very soit. — Spikes compound, secund. Spikelets | : 
from four to twelve, alternate, secund, expanding on one side, most 
simple, in two. rows. — Calyx pretty smooth, — Corol, the neuter 
valve is always present. Nectar y a rugose gland between the germ 
and exterior valve of the corol. — Seed oblong, white, slightly Po 
in à transverse directión. > 
_Ubs. The form and rugosity of the seed distinguish it from P. : 
colonum, the flowers also are ium single, there two or three n 
the same point, Va 
27. P: iinDfetuo Linn. sp. Pi: E Willd. i. 343. . 
Culms, at the base creeping. Leaves soft. Spikes, from dom 
.. flowers paired on a common pedicel. ` Corol three-valved. — 
'.. ovale, longitudinally streaked, and transversely rugose. 
