338 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Pods: 
14. P. punctata. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 395. 
Erect, smooth, from six to eighteen inches high. Panicle 
oblong ; ramifications simple, expanding, lower ones verti- - 
celled. Spikelets from twelve to fourteen-flowered, smooth, 
Seed obliquely oblong. 
This species grows in tufts on pasture ground. 
Culms erect, generally simple, round, smooth ; from six to 
eighteen inches high. Leaves small, smooth ; mouths of the 
sheaths bearded. Panicle oblong ; ramifications simple, ex- 
panding, the lower ones collected ‘into one verticel ; above 
alternate. Spikelets pedicelled, rather remote, binioat from 
twelve to fourteen-flowered. Calyx and corol smooth, thin, 
showing the unexpanded anthers and — through yee 
_ Seed oblong, smooth, brown. 
15. P. elegans. R. . 
Sub'erect, smooth, from one to three feet high. Panicle 
oblong, nodding ramifications solitary, ramous, ad pressed. 
Spikelets from eight to twelve-flowered, Seed globular. 
ise — elegant, tall, delicate species, a native of moist phe 
Culms snipe! at the base spreading for a few nico, the 
remaining part is erect, round, smooth ; from one to three feet 
high. Leaves few and very small, Skitvoei in every part, ex- 
cept the mouth of the sheaths, which are bearded. » Panicles 
linear-oblong, nodding, composed of erect, ad pressed, distinct, — 
somewhat remote ramification, each of which forms a small, 
but-similar panicle. Partial rachis with the angles hispid. 
Spikelets pedicelled, linear, from eight to twelve-flowered, 
purplish, Corol, outer valve three-nerved. Seed globular, 
smooth, and brown. 
; 5 Xt 
~-162P. multiflora. R. vie ole 
 Sub-ereet, smooth, from six to eighteen inches ih. Po 
- than the rest of the plant, nodding. \ Spike 
crowd ad Set of cha Seed globular. 
