346 -'YRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Elleusine. 
Obs. Cattle are not fond of it. 
5. E. verticillata, R. 
Erect, smooth, from one to four feet high.. Leaves bifari- 
ous. Spikelets numerous, panicled. Calyces from eight to: 
twelve-flowered ; g/umes daggered ; Seed oblong, wrinkled. 
It is a native of moist pasture ground, 
Culms erect, round, smooth, from one to four feet high. 
Leaves as in the last described. Panicle erect, oblong, com- 
posed of many verticelled, expanding, round, sessile, linear 
spikes, much resembling those of E. indica ; spikelets imbri- 
cated: in two rows on the underside of the spikes, Calya 
from eight to twelve-flowered, corol-like.. Corol ; exterior 
valve ending in a long dagger ; inner valve membranaceous. 
Seed oblong, wrinkled, arilled ; in this species the aril is fully 
as delicate as in E, egyptica, and is nearly found whole on 
the full grown or ripe seed, 
- 6. E, ealycina, R. 
Erect, from two to three feet high, Panicle signs Spikes 
numerous, alternate ; ; glumes of the calyces equal, many times 
larger than those of ~~ corol, doggered, three-flowered. Seed 
three-sided, wrinkled. 
Teling. Wadata-toka-guddee. 
- Grows in small tufts on dry — ground but gener 
sea bushes, 
~ Culms erect, ae abouttire feet high, sad ivan 
by the leaves, Leaves very thinly scattered with hairs, Pa- 
nicle linear, erect, from eight to twelve inches long, composed 
of many sessile, expanding, alternate, secund spikes, Spikelets 
occupying, as in the other species, the underside of the spike. 
Calyx generally three-flowered, glumes equal, twice as long 
as the three flowers they embrace, each ending in a longs 
sharp dagger. Corol, valves obtuse, Seed three-sided, wrink- 
led. ® cae toy that I bate-achnshee aril in wae specie: 
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