252 TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, Andropogon, 
the joints much contracted, round and very smooth, the lower 
joints of the large plant as thick as the fore finger; every 
part filled with white spongy pith ; height of the whole plant 
when in flower, from six to sixteen feet, In the Botanic gar- 
den where the soil is rich some plants are full sixteen feet 
high. Leaves from six to eight feet long, slender, deeply 
channelled toward the base, recurvate, margins hispid,’ The 
radical ones are bifarious, the floral ones alternate, sheaths 
smooth, compressed, much shorter than the joints of the culm, 
Panicle, the whole upper half of each culm may be so call- 
ed, and is composed of numerous,, axillary, very ramous 
branches, bending elegantly to one side, particularly witha _ 
breeze of wind. Bractes one to each umbellet of flowers, 
boat-shaped, Umbellets numerous, long, slender, pedicelled, 
drooping, each one is composed of four, sessile, awnless ac- 
essary male flowers surrounding, and inserted on a short 
clavate pedicel, which supports an ee sae 
flower, and two pedicelled awnless ones, 
Maze Fiowers. Calyx, glume, two-valved, the enterid 
valve clothed with much diverging fulvous hair, making it 
quite shaggy. Corol, glume, two-valved, linear, membranace- 
pus. Neetary of two tote truncated scales, pane 
Hesmaphiaaale apenas cialis eunielieds villous. 
Corol one-valved, a long arista oceupies the place of the usual 
second ss Afertery: ond stamen faiese eerie fa ieee ee. 
ANDROPOGON. Schreb. gen. N. 1566. 
. Polygamous. Flowers in pairs, hermaphrodite, pe . 
Calyx two-valved, one-flowered.» Corol for the most part 
 two-valved, and generally awned, Male, or neuter pediceh = 
ded. falas. os:fe.the Dermoplcadion Cheek Seca sis 
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