-308 (— APRIANDRIA DIGYNTA; Panicum — 
“flowered. Inner valve of the calyces vaulted ; corol thr dim 
j 
‘Seed, half round, smooth. n ited 
Grows on pasture ground, under the shade of trees, c. — = ~ 
. Culms creeping, filiform, from one to two feet long, with a few 
jnches of the extremities erect.— Leaves lanceolate, soft, a little 
downy ; sheaths ciliate, with a stipule-like process.— Panicle halved, 
oblong, smooth, composed of from three to ten ramous branchlets, 
rising on one side only when the plant is small; pedicels two-flow- 
ered. -Partial pedicels unequal.— Calyx, inner valve cucullate, ob- 
tuse ; all.the valves striated and hairy.—Corol, with a neuter, but 
small valve.— Seed smooth, obtusely and obliquely three-sideds. 
39. P. patens. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 352. ; 
Culms creeping. Leaves with a cordate base. Panicle oblong. 
Pedicels one-flowered. The three-valvelets of the calyces € 
Flowers polygamous. Seed, flat on one side, smooth. 
.. A small, delicate, creeping species ; it delights in shady pasture z 
ground. xi. TU 
~ Culms like those of P. trigonum.— Leaves broad, with a cordate 
sheaths hairy, 
^ pase, from thence tapering to a fine point, downy ; 
their mouths want the stipule-like process.— Panicle sm 
smooth.— Flowers oval, solitary.— Calyx, two-flowered, the three. 
valves are nearly equal, all smooth but striated ; 
appearing more like a second valve to the male floret than one o 
calyx, and the more so as it drops off with the seed, Jeaving the twe oe 
exterior ones behind.—Coro/, one male, or sometimes one neuter, E 
Wes 
and one hermaphrodite.— Seed oval, smooth. 
- 40. P. brevifolium. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 953. - 
Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, cordate. Panicle ovate, Very 
valve- 
ramous, partly hid in the sheath of the exterior leaf, second 
let of the calyces bearded ; cor ol three-valved. Seed ovate, smoothe 
Grows, with tlie two preceding species on shaded pasture grows 
and is very much like them, — dac ee ee 
all, about — 
one and a half or two inches long, oval, ramous; ramifications 
the inner one —— 
