316 TREANDRIA DIGYNIA, Agrostis, 
1. A. coromandeliana, Linn, sp. Ph ed. Willd. i. 374, Retz. 
Obs. iv. N. 52: 
Culms from four to eight inches high, Panicle verticel- _ 
led ; ramification simple, secund ; inner valve of the calyx as 
long as the corol ; exterior valve minute. Seed naked, obo- 
vate, rugose, 
Teling. Yellika-tungoo-gadi, 
_ A native of pasture ground. 
Culms spreading near the base, then ascending, from four 
to eight inches long, mostly involved in the sheaths of the 
leaves. Leaves rather broad, waved and slightly ciliated ;. 
mouths of the sheath bearded. Panicle oblong ; large for 
the size of the grass, composed of expanding, simple, verti- 
celled, secund racemes. Flowers awnless, generally in pairs, 
unequally pedicelled, Calya, exterior valve small, like that 
of the accessory valve in Panicum. Inner as large as the 
eorol, and gaping with it when the seed ripens, | Seed, it 
drops uncovered by the corol, leaving it andthe calyx in 
their places; it is of an oblique oval form, brown, and trans— 
versely rugose. 2 
~ 2. As tenacissima, Linn. sp. pl. ed, Willd. i. 374, 
~ Smooth, creeping, Leaves minute, Panicle filiform ; ex 
terior valvelet of the calyx shorter wars aoe corol. a 
Teling. Toema-gerika. gh wet Lables 
RSA ad apion yeromingt tsi de, si, pasture 
ground, where it forms extensive plants of tenacious turf. 
Culms: ramous, creeping to a great extent, with from four 
to eight inches high of their flower-bearing extremities, erect, — 
smooth, filiform, and very firm, Leaves very small, and 
smooth, Panicle erect, linear; ramifications and flowers 
adpressed, from one to two inches long. Calyx, exterior 
valve smaller than the interior, Corol as large and long as 
the inner valvelet of the calyx. sein: GaAs SNe 
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