Poa. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. _ 337 
ramifications adpressed, fascicled, and approximated. ^ ^ Spikelets 
from eight to fourteen-flowered ; seed oblong. 
 Teling. Urenka. 
= Delight in a rich, moist soil, such as the athe of water courses, 
borders of rice fields, &c. 
Culms erect, from three to five feet high, generally simple, round, 
smooth.— Leaves narrow, long,.sharp, and smooth.— Panicle linear, 
from one to two feet long; ramifications filiform, peduncled, ad- 
pressed, one, two, or more from nearly the same place, but seldom 
so far asunder as their own length. Spikelets pedicelled, from eight 
to fourteen-flowered.—Calyr and corol smooth Sed oblong, 
smooth, brown. 
Obs. The best mark to distinguish it from the last species is ‘the 
form. of the seed, which in that is obovate, iu this oblong. Cattle are 
not fond of any of these tall, erect, coarse species. 
10. P. diandra. R. 
Erect, smooth. Leaves long, fine-pointed ; panicle linear, half the- 
length of the whole plant; ramifications scattered, compound, expand- 
ing, smooth ; spikelets from four to eight Howered. - Flowers dian- 
drous. 
A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold season. 
Culms erect, growing in tufts, with few branches, smooth ; ; height 
ofthe whole plant in a good soil, from three to six feet.— Leaves from 
one to two feet long, smooth in every part, tapering to a long fine 
point.— Panicle linear, half the length of the whole plant; ramifica- 
tions thereof scattered, expanding, smooth, compound, from two 
to three inches long.—Spikelets lanceolate, small, smooth, from. 
four to eight-flowered.—Corol, with both valyes smooth, and rather 
obtuse.— Stamens two. Anthers puipie: 
11. P. viscosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd, i 398. Retz. Obs. iv. p.90. 
Culm ascending, from mine to eighteen inches high, clammy. ` 
P, anicle linear-oblong ;_ rami ifications verticelled, short, spreading ; 
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