Milium. ` TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, : 317 
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the mouth of the sheath. Racemes two or three, terminal, erect ; 
flowers alternate, solitary, awnless. i 
- Hind. Kanka juriya. 
Grows on pasture ground, is a small, delicate species, has much 
the appearance of Agrostis linearis. 
Culms creeping, except a sniall flower-bearing portion, which is 
erect, round, smooth ; and from.six to twelve inches high.—- Leaves 
small, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths stipuled.— Kacemes two or 
three, terminal, sessile, erect, secund. Rachis membranaceous, a 
little waved.—- Flowers single, alternate, imbricated in two rows, awn- 
less.—Calyz, glumes nearly equal, membranaceous, a d ayy. — 
Corol, valves rigid, smooth. 
.g. M. geo R. 
Culms sub-erect, smooth, — Racemes sub-digitate ; ; flowers three- 
fold, on unequal pedicels. 
- Panicum sanguinale. Burm. Flor. Ind. t. 10. f. t. 
Beng. Chiri-chira. 
A native of pasture ground, | 
Culms sometimes creeping near the base, the rest erect, smooth, 
and about a foot and a half high.— Leaves long, narrow, smooth in 
: every part.— Panicle racemed, sub-erect. — Racemes from four to 
eight, secund, erect, rachis three-sided.— Flowers generally in threes, 
though sometimes in pairs or in fours, all have pedicels of unequal 
length, —Calyz and corol as in the last pep : 
8. M. ramosum. Y uc Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 361. 
Smooth ;-culms sub-erect, from two to four feet high. Panicle 
o six or eight, remote, with somewhat ramous branches ; fien pair- 
| ed on common pedicels. Calyces pointed, and very hairy. 
Found growing in large tufts, on moist, rich pasture ground. 
Root creeping.— Culms from one to four feet long, spreading near 
the base, and striking root at the joints that rest on. the ground. — 
Leaves smooth. — Panicle oval, very thin, composed ofa few, from 
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