Panicum, -TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, | 299 
cuspidate, and generally armed with a few minute bristles. 
Corol three-valved ; the third or accessary one metabrana- 
ceous, and neuter. Seeds ovate, smooth, cuspidate. 
SECT. V. Spikes alternate on all sides of a common rachis. 
29. P. setigerum. Linn. sp. pl, ed. Willd, i. 338, his 
Culms, below creeping, sub-ligneous, Leaves with cordate 
base and ciliate margins. Insertions of the spikelets and flow- 
ers bristly. Corol three-valved, Seed oval, transversely ru= 
gose, 
et Paiagelagainis: 
P. setigerum. Retz. Obs. iv. 15. 
Grows amongst bushes or under the shade of tree 
Culms long; straggling, rooting when they rest on the 
ground, firm, almost woody towards the base, but small, and. 
very smooth ; joints downy. Leaves sheathing, broad-cordate 
at the base, tapering from thence to the point; margins cili- 
ate, and waved ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. Spikes com- 
pound. Spikelets from four to twenty, secund, spreading, 
disposed equally on all sides, Rachis, common four, five, or 
six-sided, partial three-sided. Flowers paired ; pairs alter- 
nate, in two rows, one sessile, one pedicelled, intermixed with 
many long strong hairs, like an involucre. Calya, the two in- 
ner glumes downy and striated lengthways with many green 
nerves. Corol, the neuter membranaceous, valve always pre- 
sent, but no stamens. Seed oval, transversely rugose, pb: 
Obs. When exposed to the weather, the leaves are of a 
smooth shining deep green, when Pai AAR 5 3 
soft, and somewhat downy, which made me sities ink they 
were different eee Case: are i ale edd 
| 390..P. ei Ans 
Creeping. Leaves: ee aaa cea toto, ctemn clonp- 
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