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Panicum. _ TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 293 
ed. Flowers oval, solitary, polygamous ; inner two valves of 
the calyx equal; nectarial petals long; seed ovate, point- 
ed, rugose, i. 
P, flavidum. Linn. sp, a ed. Willd. i, . 339. Retz. Obs, 
iv. 15. appears to be the same plant growing on a barren 
soil; this was the opinion of Kénig. P. flacidum of the Bank- 
sian Herbarium seems the same, ora variety only. _ sx 
Teling. Oda, or W oodoo-gaddi. de oly 
lt is common. in every soil and situation, even in deep wa-.— 
ter; in one that is rich and moist, it is often two to four feet 
long, and again on one that is dry and barren only as many 
inches. It. grows in tufts, various nee of it are often tinged 
purple. ; 
Culms near the base ——- on the ground, and rooting 
above, regularly ascending, compressed, smooth, Leaves bi-. 
farious, smooth, their Lenertl ‘differs much; mouths of the 
sheaths bearded, Spikes compound, secund, their length ‘va- 
rious according to the size of the plant. Spikelets secund, 
number very various, alternate, erect, pressing on the com- 
mon rachis; below they are often two or three times their 
length from each other ; above less remote. Rachis common, 
somewhat three-sided, and a groove on the outside where 
the spikelets rest. Flowers always disposed in two rows, 
sub-globular.. Calyx two-flowered. Inner valve the size of’ 
the corol, middle valve rather shorter; all are striated with 
green nerves. Corol, one hermaphrodite, and one male, as in 
some of the species already described, always present, ex- 
cept in very minute plants, and even then the stamens of the 
second. floret are pall sometimes aes aclontes lager ; 
20. P. finn, Ta op. pled. Willd. i398 
- Oubme from two. to three feet high, creeping at the base. 
me. Spikelets numerous, approximate, longer than 
es, Flowers hermaphrodite, oblong, two exterior 
valvelets of the calyces minute; seed oblong. 
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