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~ 2. M. sanguinale. R. ‘ T 
Culms sub-erect, smooth. Racomes susigitate : flowers 
three-fold, on unequal pedicels. 
- Panicum sanguinale. Burm. Flor. Ind. t..10.f. t. 
Beng. Ghiredhitn: 
A native of pasture ground. 
- Culms sometimes creeping near the base, the rest erect, 
smooth, and about a foot and a half high. Leaves long, 
‘narrow, smooth in every part. Panicle racemed, sub-erect, 
Racemes from four to eight, secund, erect, rachis three-sided, 
Flowers generally in threes, though sometimes in pairs or in 
fours, all have pedicels:of unequal length. bene and corol 
as in the leat aaen 
3. M. ramosum, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd.i. 361. 
» Smooth ; culms sub-erect, from two to four feet high. Pa- 
nicle six x eight, remote, with somewhat ramous branches, 
Flowers paired on common pedeeaed ‘acsieab penis foal. 
very hairy. 
Found growing in ries tufts, on moist, nich. dentine 
ground, 
Root creeping. Culms from one to four feet long, spread- 
‘ing near the base, and striking root at the joints that rest on 
the ground, Leaves smooth. Panicle oval, very thin, com- 
posed of a few, from four to eight-compound, spreading, se- 
cund, racemes. Rachis of the racemes three-sided. Flowers 
below, on a common pedicel, besides which each has its pro- 
per pedicel, but of unequal length; above single. Calyx, 
valves equal, pointed, and very icsidee ites the ager sacd 
= sar: ese ie: a Bh isi? eda 
ia " AGROSTIS. Sehreb. _gen. N11 ee, 
— Ca ae one-flowered, two-valved, Corel. tvouvaly 
ed, larger than the calyx, 
