28 _‘TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum. 
valved. Seed ovate, longitudinally streaked, and transverse- __ 
ly rugose. 
This is also a native of pasture ground, but chiefly that 
which i is shaded. It is exceedingly like the last described 
species, 
Culms creeping, &c. as in the last. Leaves also the same. 
_ Spikes, the same as in P. grossarium. Spikelets or rather ra- 
cemes, the lower one or two sometimes branchy in luxuriant 
plants. Rachis; common, striated ; partial three-sided, and 
downy. Flowers, the inferior ones in pairs, upon a short, 
common pedicel ; besides, having their partial pedicels, one 
of which is nearly as long as its flowers; above they are often 
single, and somewhat remote ; hairs surround the insertion of 
all. Calyx hairy. Corol, the neuter valve is here present. 
Seed ovate, a little pointed, rugose, like that of the last species. 
. Obs. The chief character consists in the lower flowers of 
the racemes being paired on a common peduncle, with ped 
cels of very unequal lengths and hairy involucres, 
28. P. cuspidatum. R. ieee? 
* Creéping near the base, wholly smooth. Leaves linear, 
without ligula. Spikes compound, secund ; spikelets adpress- 
ed, secund. Flowers from one to three, equally sub-sessile, — 
all hermaphrodite ; valves of a tages hed and eus- 
pidate. Seed cuspidate. rea Me 
- A native of si "Found in ich moist sol inflows 
and seed in April. 
Culms, namerous in luxuriant tufts, creeping near rae ori- 
ginal root, then ascending to about two feet in height, ramous, 
smooth, Leaves ensiform, smooth, with coloured margins. 
Sheaths shorter than the joints, smooth, and completely des- 
titute of ligula. Spikes compound, secund, slightly recur- 
yate, with the secund spikelets on the convex side pressing 
- on the common, three-sided, hispid rachis; often of adall 
rple colour. Flowers, from one to"three togethers 
equally sub-sessile, Calyz, all the glumes three-nerved, and | 
