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and margins of the sheaths fringed, with long delicate white hairs.— 
Panicle oblong, composed of many, capillary, alternate, horizontal, 
ramous branches, their insertions and sub-divisions are fringed with 
a few, fine, white hairs. Spikelets minute, pedicelled, depending, 
from four to six-flowered.—Ca/yr smooth.— Corol, inner valve fring- 
ed with hairs in the back.—Seed oblong, brown, smooth. — 
14. P. punctata. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 395. 
Erect, smooth, from six to eighteen inches high. Panicle oblong; 
ramifications simple, expanding, lower ones verticelled. Spikelets 
from twelve to fourteen-flowered, smooth.—Seed eS Song. 
This species grows in tufts on pasture ground. 
Culms erect, generally simple, round, smooth ; from six to eigh- 
< teen inches bigh. — Leaves small, smooth; mouths of the sheaths 
bearded.— Panicle oblong ; rvmifications simple, expanding, the 
lower ones collected into one verticel ; above alternate.— Spikelets 
pedicelled, rather remote, linear, from twelve to fourteen- flower- 
ed.— Calyx and corol smooth, thin, showing the unexpanded an- 
thers and stigmas through them.— Seed oblong, smooth, brown. 
15. P. elegans. R. 
Sub-erect, smooth, from one to lire feet high. Panicle oblong, 
nodding ramifications solitary, ramous, adpressed. err EN 
eight to twelve-flowered. Seed globular. 
A very elegant, tall, delicate species, a native of moist castes 
“ground. : 
“Cullis simple, at the base spreading for a few inches, the remain- 
ing partis erect, round, smooth ; from one to three feet high. — Leaves 
few and very small, smooth i in every part, except the mouth of the - 
sheaths, which are bearded.— Panicles linear-oblong, nodding, com- 
Posed of erect, adpressed, distinct, somewhat remote ramification, 
each of which forms a small, but similar panicle. Partial rachis 
With the angles hispid. Spikelets pedicelied, linear, from eight to 
z twelve-flowered, purplish.—Corol, outer valve three-nerved. — Seed 
globular, smooth, and brown. . 
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