340 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Poa. 
exactly resembling P. unioloides as to be easily mistaken 
for it, It has much the habit of Briza Eragrostis, 3 
Culms sub-erect, winding, round, smooth ; from one and 
a half to two feet high, Leaves much larger sig in the last 
species, and the mouths of the sheaths more hairy. Panicle 
‘oval, very large, generally more than half the length of the 
whole plant, branches alternate, nearly horizontal, ramous, 
with a brown, hairy gland in the axill of each division of the 
panicle, Spikelets white, or pale green, lanceolate, large, 
about twenty-flowered. Seed globular, brown, and smooth. 
19. P. paniculata. R, 
Erect, smooth, from two to four feet high. Leaves long; 
mouths of their sheaths bearded. Panicle oblong ; ramifica- 
tions most numerous, filiform; insertions hairy. Spikelets 
from four to sixteen-flowered ; valvelets of = calyces ciliate, 
Seed globular. | 
Culms sub-erect, round, and smooth; length from one to 
two teet high to the panicle, which is shart the same length, 
making the whole height from three to four feet, Leaves 
Jarge, mouths of the sheaths very hairy. Panicle oblong, 
very large, composed of numerous, ramous, filiform, expand- 
ing branches, their insertions and sub-divisions involved in 
fine, long, white hairs. Spikelets long-pedicelled, linear, 
from four to, sixteen-flowered, Corol, outer valve round at 
the Ape, and Shres-nerveds inner one neligiely ciliate on the 
20. P. gangetica. R. 
Grows in very dense tufts. Panicle thin. Spikelets linieer, 
from thirty to forty-flowered, ee 
A native of the banks of the Ganges, but scarce. 
_ Culms numerous, and ramous, growing in crowded tufts, 
_ Smooth in every part, general length about a foot. Leaves 
few, small, and smooth. Panicle ovate, composed of a few, 
remote, alternate, mb dinenie jabs each <r 
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