250 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Anihistirta, 
florets, and three male ones. In all the rest, which I have 
met with there is one awned hermaphrodite, and six male, 
or neuter florets in the umbellet. 
5. A. prosirata. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 901. : 
Creeping. Leaves scarcely longer than their sheaths, Jn- 
volucres smooth, Accessar) y florets male, with a two-valved. 
hairy calyx and one-valved awnless corol. 
A common grass, delighting in rich pasture ground. 
~ Culms creeping, or leaning on other plants, filiform, ra- 
mous, winding from joint to joint, round, smooth, from one to 
three feet long. Leaves below, and on leafy shoots bifarious, 
small, particularly the floral ones, smooth. Sheaths short, 
compressed, Panicles thin, leafy. Flowers numerous, col- 
lected in little pedicelled, involucred fascicles from the axills 
of the exterior leaves. Fascicles, or wmbellets, their pedun- 
cles are jointed near the apex, and from thence upwards em- 
braced by a long, boat-shaped sheath or involucre, Flowers 
of the umbellet seven ; one hermaphrodite or female, and six” 
male ; four of the male florets on their proper short pedicels. 
surround a common pedicel which elevates the hermaphro- 
dite or female one, and the other two male florets ; these last. 
two have also their proper pesesies all sanemedeamaleits: ; 
surrounded withhair, = set | 
HERMAPHRODITE TWO, OR Pucuies THREE Raoviails 
Calyx two-valved, pointed, Corol one-valved, a pretty long” 
twisted awn occupying the place of the other. | Stamens 
three, or none. Male flowers, four at the base, and two em- 7 
bracing laterally the hermaphrodite, or female flowers, each = 
of these two has its proper pedicel. Calyx two-valved; Jan- 
ceolate, hairy. Corel one-valved. Stamens three. = 
Obs. It often happens that there are two hermaphrodite, 
and seven male flowers in the fascicle; in that case one of the — 
usual lateral pedicels supports the additional two flowers, Ss 
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