Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, — 291 
it thrives well, and bidwotis' the whole year, but chiefly dur- 
ing the rains, 
Culms ramous, creeping, very delicate, and smooth, a ee 
portion next the spikes erect, naked, coloured and filiform. 
Leaves soft and small, ciliate, with a few long hairs at the 
base, Spikes generally from two to four issuing from the 
same point, very slender, secund. Rachis flexuose. Flowers 
in a pair, one sessile, Calyx one-flowered, flower herma- 
phrodite; accessary valve exceedingly minute, but by careful 
observations may always ‘be found; second valve as long as 
the corol, the imer one only -half their length, which is 
one of the best specific marks; these two have three smooth 
nerves on the back, and their margins are slightly bearded, - 
Corol two-valved., 
16. P. lineare. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 344. 
- Sub-erect, smooth, Spikes from two to six, digitate, fili- 
ferm. Flowers all hermaphrodite, awnless, and pedicelled, 
Calycine valves, the accessary one minute; the inner two 
equalling the corol, and three-nerved. 
P. lineare. Burm. Ind. p. 25. t. 10. f. 3, is a tolerable re- | 
presentation of this pretty delicate grass, 
- A native of China, accidentally introduced from thence into 
the Botanic garden, where it is in flower the whole year ; but 
like most other grasses most luxuriant during the rains. It 
has a great resemblance to P. dactylon, ciliare, filiforme, and 
aegypticum, but does not creep like them, The flowers are 
less regularly paired, more minute, smooth, and obtuse, the 
two inner valves of the calyx equal and as long as the corol, 
and the accessary one ~— Ne; or not to be fous. y sa 
17. P. cimicinum, Linn, sp. pl. ed, Willd, i, 944. 
Culms erect, h nairy , from one to two feet high, Racemes 
peduncle¢ mbed ; flowers polygamous, in pairs ; exterior 
valvelets of  ealyces fringed ; corol awned. 
-Milium cimicinun. Mant, 184, 
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