Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. a 289 
from the base to a fine point, three-nerved ; margins fringed, : 
of a chaffy texture. Corol as in the genus, and rather longer 
than the inner glume of the calyx, here is a third neutral 
membranaceous valve, as in many species of this genus. 
SECT. III. Spikes fascieled. 
12. P. Dactylon. Linn, sp. pl. ed, Willd. i, 342. 
Smooth, creeping. Spikes digitate, secund, corol gibbous 
on one side, and twice as long as the calyces. 
Agrostis linearis. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd, i. 375. Retz. 
Obs. iv. N.51. Sir W. Jones, Asiat. Res. iv. p. 248, 
_ Sans, Doorva, Shutupurvika, Suhusruveerya, Bharguvee, 
Onrvehe. Ununta. 
_. Beng, Doorba. 
Teling. Ghericha, 
Tam, Arugam-pilla. 
This is by far the most common and useful grass in India. 
It grows every where abundantly, and flowers all the year. 
__ Root creeping, Culms creeping, with their flower-bearing 
branchlets erect, from six to twelve inches high, smooth, 
Leaves small, and smooth. Spikes from three to five, termi- 
nal, sessile, filiform, expanding, secund, from one to two 
inches long. Rachis waved. Flowers alternate, single, dis- 
posed in two rows on the underside. Ca/ya mucli smaller 
than the corol, Corol, the large or exterior valve boat-shap- 
ed, keel slightly ciliate. Stigmas villous, purple. © 
Obs. This most valuable grass forms three-fourths of the 
food of our horses and cows in India. It is by the brahmens 
of the coasts held sacred to Ganerhe, Soe tims aad 
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