306. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, - Panicum, — 
cordate base, from thence tapering to a fine point, downy ; 
sheaths hairy, their mouths want the stipule-like process. 
Panicle small, about one and a half or two inches long, oval, 
ramous ; ramifications smooth. Flowers oval, solitary. Calyx, 
two-flowered, the three valves are nearly equal, all smooth 
but striated ; the inner one appearing more like a second 
valve to the male floret than one of the calyx, and the more. 
‘so as it drops off with the seed, leaving the two exterior ones: 
behind. . Corol, one. male, or sometimes one neuter, and one» 
hermaphrodite, Seed oval, smooth. : 
“40. Pp, brevifolium, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Wiild. i. 353. ; 
Culms creeping, Leaves lanceolate, cordate. Panicle ovate, . 
very ramous; partly hid in the sheath of the exterior leaf, se- 
cond valvelet of the calyces bearded; corol three-valved. 
Seed ovate, smooth, ” 
Grows, with the two pase oN species on dade posure 
ground, and is very much like them. ‘i 
Culms creeping, as in the two last described species, 1 Paks 
rather more robust. Leaves broad, and somewhat cordate at~— 
“the base, waved ; margins of the sheaths ciliate. Paniele, the: 
lower part always confined within the sheaths of the extreme 
leaf, oval, from three to five inches long, composed ofnumer-' 
"ous very fine capillary ramifications, the common rachis and ~ 
larger branches very woolly. Flowers obliquely-oval, numer- 
‘n,n very fine, long pedicels. Calyx ; the exterior valve 
the second boat-shaped, with the outside covered | 
we the third oval. ———e,€ 2 2 
valve, but no stamen. Seed oval, smooth, white. . 
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ALP: fentllem Rs. ; fis 
Culms ascending, Leaves long. Panicles oblong, very » 
_ Yamous, Flowers svlitary, remote; second valvyelets of the 
calyces recurved, and pointed. Corol, three-valved, Seed 
