Arundo, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIAs — - 
serticelled, expanding, round, sessile, linear spikes, much resembling 
those of E. indica; spikelets imbricated in two rows on the under side ` 
| of the spikes.—Ca/yz from eight to twelve-flowered, corolJike.—Co- 
rol, exterior valve ending in a long dagger, inner valve membranace- 
ous.— Seed oblong, wrinkled, arilled ; in this species the aril is fully — 
35 delicate as iu E. agyptioga sud is nenly found whole on the p 
guo or ripe seed, - 
$ E. calycina» R. : 
— Erect, from two to three feet high: Panicle E Spile numer» 
eus, alternate; glumes of the calyces equal, many times larger tham 
those of the coral, tala three-Bowened, Seedalnnanea mie 
led. cT 
Teling. due cube idie: 
Grows in small tufts ou dry pasture osi but escono amongst z 
bushes. 
Culms erect, generally about two feet high, much covered by the 
Aeaves.— Leaves very thinly scattered with hairs,—Panicle linear, 
eréct, from eight te twelve inches long, composed of many sessile, 
*xpandinz, alternate, secund spikes; spikelets occupying, as in the 
other species, the under side’ of the spike.—Ca/yr generally three- 
flowered, glumes equal, twice as long as the three flowers they eme 
_ brace, each ending in a long, sharp dagger.— Corol, valves obtuse,— 
Seed three-sided, wrinkled. I cannotsay that I have seen the aril ia 
this species, though I have often looked. fori it; it may therefore be a 
— species of Dactylis 
ARUNDO. Schreb. Gen. 194. 
Calys two-valved, containing one or more two-valved flowers, 
surrounded with long liairs. 
1. A. bifaria. Retz. Obs. iv. 21. Linn. Sp. Pl. ad Willd. i: 455. 
ane Snath, leafy, from twelve to Se feet high. Panicle 
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