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318. | THIANDRIA DIGYNIA.  — Agrostis. 
four to eight-compound, spreading, secund, racemes. Rachis of the 
racemes three-sided.— Flowers below, on a common-pedicel, be-. 
sides which each has its proper pedicel, but of unequal length ; above 
single.— Ca/yz, valves equal, pointed, and very hairy.—Corol, the 
exterior valves ends in an awled point. ; 
AGROSTIS. Schreb. Gen. N. 111. 
Calyx, glume one flowered, two-valved. Corol two-valved, larger: 
than the calyx. 
1. A. coromandeliana. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd.i.374. Retz. Obs. 
iv. N. 52. 
Culms from four to eight inches high. Panicle verticelled ; rami- 
fication simple, secund; inner valve of the calyx as long as the co- 
rol; exterior valve minute. Seed naked, obovate, rugose. — 
Teliug. Yellika-tungoo-gadi. l : 
A native of pasture ground. i i 
Culms spreading near the base, then ascending, from four to eight 
inches long, mostly involved in the sheaths of the leaves.— Leaves 
rather broad, waved and slightly ciliated ; mouths of the sheath beard- 
ed.— Panicle oblong ; large for the size of the grass, composed of 
expanding, simple, verticelled, secund racemes.— Flowers awnless, | 
generally in pairs, unequally pedicelled.—Calyr, « exterior valve small, 
like that of the accessory valve in Panicum. Inner as large as the 
corol, and gaping with it when the seed ripens.— Seed, it drops ùn- 
covered by the corol, leaving it and the calyx in their places; it is 
of an TUM oval form, broui and Faer on weg 
9. A. tenacissima. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 974. 
Smooth, creeping. Leaves minute. Panicle filiform ; exterior 
valvelet of the calyx shorter than the corol. 
Teling. Toema-gerika. 
A small, rigid species ; growing on old, poor, stiff, geet grou 
where it forms extensive plants of tenacious turf. 
