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38 — TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Poa, 
spikelets from three to twelve- maa inner glumes of the corol 
ciliate. ; i 
This species grows in tufts on dry pasture ground. 
Culms numerous, spreading, with their extremities asceriding, ra- 
mous, from nine to eighteen inches long.— Leaces small, margins in- 
volute ; sheaths shorter than the joints, with their mouth surrounded 
with long, slender, white hair.— Panicles linear-oblong, from two to 
four inches long, composed of short, sub-verticelled, sessile, expand- 
ing ramifications.— Calyx from three to four-flowered. —Corol, inner 
valve ciliate. wae 
= Oós. Every part of the plant is covered with tenacious gluten. - 
12. P. tenella. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 395. 
Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high. Panicle linker alder, 
verücelled. Spikelets pedicelled, from four to six-flow ere smooth 
A native of pasture ground. 5 
Culins erect, rouud, smooth, from one to two fect high.— Leaves 
smooth, mouth of the sheaths much bearded.—- Panicles tinear-oblong, 
.. composed of verticelled, filiform, expanding, ramous branches, hav- 
: ing always at their insertions and sub-divisions a few fiue, long hairs. 
Spikelets pedicelled, from four to six-flowered.— Calyx and corol 
smooth.— Seed. oval, brown, smooth, falling from the corol when 
ripe, as do all the other species of this genus that I have yet seen. 
—. Obs. The anthers shine through the valves, as in P. punctata, 
and indeed in most, if not all the Poas. ee 
33. P. plumosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 403. Retz. Obs. — 
Sub-erect, smooth. Panicle ovate-oblong ; ramifications aie 
horizontal ; insertions hairy ; ramuli depending. Spikelets pedicelled, 
from four to six-flówered ; inner valvelets of the corols ciliate. — . 
Tsjama-pullu. Rheed. mal. xii. p. 75. t. 41. o 
Gramen fumi. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 10. t. 4. f. 3. 
Is found growing in tufts on pasture ground. - 
Culms filiform, many, ramous, spreading a little at the base, above 
| erect, T- one to two feet np round, sinooth.— Leaves, months — 
