Panicum. ——— TRIANDRIA BIGENI., . B04 
This is also a native of pasture ground, but chiefly that which is 
shaded. It is exceedingly like the last described species. 
Culms, creeping, &c. as in the last.— Leaves also the same.— 
Spikes, the same as in P. grossarium. Spikelets. or rather racemes, 
'Cothe lower one or two sometimes branchy in luxuriant plants. Rachis, 
common striated; partial tbree-sided,. and. downy.— Flowers, the 
inferior ones in pairs, upon a short, common pedicel ; besides, hav- 
ing their partial pedicels, one of which is nearly as long asits flowers ; 
above they are often single, and somewhat remote ; hairs surround 
the insertion of all. —Calyr hairy.—Corol, the neuter. valve is here 
present. —Seed ovate, a little ees supose; like that of the last 
species. 
Obs. Fhe chief character çonsists in the E foran of the ra- 
çemes being paired ön a common peduncle, with pedicels of = 
unequal lengths and hairy involucres. 
98 P. cuspidatum. R. - 
Creeping near the base, wholly smooth. Leaves linear, without 
ligula. Spikes compound, secund ; spikelets adpressed, secund; ; flow 
ers from one. to three, equally sub-sessile, all hermaphrodite; valies 
of the calyx three-nerved, and cuspidate. Seed cuspidate. 
A native of Bengal. Found i in a rich moist soil, in e and 
seed in April. f T ea 
“Culms, numerous in’ luxuriant tufts, creepingnear the vga root, | 
then ascending to about two feet in height, ramous, smooth.— 
Leaves ensiform, smooth, with coloured margins. Sheaths shorter than 
the joints, smooth, and completely destitute of ligula.— Spikes com- 
pound, secund, slightly recurvate, with the secund spikelets on the - 
convex side pressing on the common, three-sided, hispid rachis ; 
often of a dull purple colour.— Flowers, from one to three together, - 
and equally sub.sessile.— Ca/yr, all the glumes three-nerved, and 
cuspidate, and generally armed with a few minute bristles.—Coroé 
thiee-valved ; the third or accessary one iro pe and néu- 
Ver. — Seeds t smooth, cuspidate. 
