Agrostis, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 319 
Culms ramous, creeping to a great extent, with from four to eight 
inches high of their flower-bearing extremities, erect, smooth, filiform, 
and very 6:m.— Leaves very small, and smooth.— Panicle erect, li- 
near; ramifications and flowers adpressed, from one to two inches 
long.—Calyr, exterior valve smaller than the interior. — Coro/ as large 
and long as the inner valvelet of the calyx. : 
SA Matrella. Lina. Sp. PI. ed. Wilid. 1. 366. 
. Creeping. Leaves pungent. . Spikes terminal, solitary, few- flow. 
ered. es 
A native of the barren sandy lands, n: near the, sea. on n the Coast of 
Coromandel, | gk SA 
... 4. A. diandra. Linn. Sp- Pl. ed. Willd.i.371. Retz. Obs. v. N, 37. — 
Smooth ; culms erect, from one to three feet high. Panicle linear, 
branchlets short, expanding; flowers paired, diandrous. Calyx scarce- 
lyhalf the length of the corol. Seed naked, Dhoyate, rugose. 
Beng. Bena-joni. 
A native of moist pasture ground, in the Abt of Calcutta. 
Culms nearly erect, from one to three feet high, almost cover- 
ed with the sheaths of the leaves.— Leaves narrow, tapering to 
a fine point, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths slightly bearded. — Pa- 
nicle linear-oblong, bowing a little, often a foot long , composed of 
expanding , alternate, compound, seemingly simple racemes.— Flow- 
-ers in pairs on a common peduncle, but unequally pedicelled.—Ca- 
lyz, valves equal, scarcely half the length of the corol, smooth, 
 membranaceous.— Stamens two. Seed narrow-obcordate, dropping 
| from the calyx and corol, brown, obtusely rugose. - 
5. A. maxima. R. ; : 
Culms erect, from four to twelve feet high. Panicle ovate, ex- 
panding. ^^ Calyces minute, exterior valyelets of the coro] fringed 
with long hairs.— Stamens two. 
