314 . TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. . Milium. 
Culms numerous from a single root, ascending, length - 
from six to twelve inches, round, smooth, and involved in the 
sheaths of the leaves, which are longer than its joints. Leaves 
ensiform, from three to six inches long, smooth. Panicle li- 
near, oblong, dense, exceedingly soft from the immense num- 
ber of most delicate, pale-coloured awns. Flowers minute 
and numerous. Calyx; glume one-flowered, two-valved ; 
valves nearly equal, with a most delicate, long, soft arista from 
the apex ; hairy, chiefly on the back, and membranaceous ci- 
liate margins. Corol two-valved ; valves obtuse, much short- 
-er than the calyx, as in general a very minute awn issues 
-from the apex of the Lanier valve, Seed pews gam but 
~ obtuse. 
Obs. In the cold season of 1802-3, L reared the same grass 
from seed sent from England - A. B. Lambert, Esq. 
= 
MILIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 10. 
Calyx, glume one-flowered, two-valved. Corot aroialeed 
Jess than the calyx. 
1, M. filiforme. R. | 
Creeping, smooth. Leaves short, with a stipulary process 
at the mouth of the sheath. Racemes two or three, terminals 
_-erect, Flowers alternate, solitary, mmr 
Hind. Kanka juriya. HAAG a! 
- Grows on pasture ground, want, dicate specie ha 
med the appearance of Agrostis linearis. 
Culms creeping, except a small. fower-boaring. pevtidd fe 
which j is erect, round, smooth ; and from six to twelve inches 
high. Leaves small, smooth ; silat of the sheaths stipuled, 
Racemes two or three, terminal, sessile, erect, secund, Ra- 
chis membranaceous, a little waved. Flowers single, alter- 
‘nate, imbricated in two rows, awnless, Calyx, glumes neat- 
ly, equal, . cu aesaies a hittle hairy. Corol, hase os y 
