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I. PVurunASCEi^iS. PLiu'i.E. 



Ci'ivnen ptaleiise paniciiJa etfaliis unt^usti>,sinii.'f, spicis brcvlhus mati-- 

 Cis Ivcuitis rnihrinis. Siouue, v. 1,, p. 11 j, l. I'i, 1'. 1. 



Panirle contr;;cted, elongate, brcinthes pressed close upright ; florets unequal, 

 iicuuiinate. 



Tlie roots of this grass are many, small, wlute, and capilinrv, forming a large tuft, 

 r!)irn send forth a 'threat inaoy Icavfs, five inches lon^', narrow, almost round, liry, and 

 of a piite green eoion'r. The stalks are njiiiid, soli!, haid, smooth,- a tout and a half: 

 liijii, of a clay colour^ having- small leaves to nirre inches hi.s^h j .whence it is a veiy 

 narrow prtnicie, being divided into .many three-quarters of an inch long branches, 

 sonieiimes b!ack, and sometimes gray, having small obiong reddish seed, m a gray or 

 ]>lack naked husk, scarcely discernible to tiie naked eye. It grows in most savannas, 

 and in abundance towardsBiack Kiverb.ridge,. beyond" Two Iv'Iile Wood. It affords but 

 sniall'noiirishment, yet cattle eat it in dry avtd scarce times, when they grow very 1 ig 

 in their pa\inches, with the great quajitity they eat, a littie iiut Ltiug able to iuiisty- 

 thcni. S'loane. . 



2. VIRGINICA. . VIRGINIAN; 



JITi'vitmim distiche folidtum, spt'ca strictiori simpUci erecta v:ut{i:a.- 

 Browne, p. 137. 



Panicle contracted ^ leavesvrolled inwards, subulate, rigid, standing out. 



Browne calls this crab grass, and says it is an elegant little plant, growing abont 

 lEunt'b Bay ; that the statk is a littie compressed, and selduiu nses above lour or live 

 inches from the root. 



BERMUDAS CEDAR. JUNIPERUS. 



Cl. 22, OR. IJ. Diaecia monodelphia. Nat. or. Cowfeva. 



Tliis takes its name from a plant of Pliny's. 



Gen. Char. Male calyx a conical ament, consisting of a common shaft, on wliich 

 are disposed three opposite flowers in triple opposition, a tenth terminating the 

 ameat : each flower has for its base a broad, short, incumbent, scale, affixeci to 

 the column of the receptacle. There is nocorolhi. Tiie stamens, are three, four, 

 or eight, filaments, in a terminal floscule, awi-siuiped,. v.nui d below into one body,. 

 in the lateral flowers scarce manifest ; nthers three, distinct in the tenninal fl.Aver, 

 but fastetredto the ealycine scale, in the lateral ones. Tlie learale flowers have a 

 three-parted perianth, very small, growing to the gerni, permanent ; corona iliree 

 petals, jiermanent, rigid, actite ; the pistil has . n inferior germ, three sinrple 

 styles, with simple stigmas ; the pericarp is a fleshy berry, romidisU, nii.rked on 

 Ihe lower part with three opposite obscure ti'bovcics, f-oin-iOe calyx having grown 

 there, and at the tip by three teeth, which b^'; i. .v re t..e petals, umbiiicated ; 

 seeds three ossicles, convex on one side, coineiea on tliu ouicr, oblong. One 

 species is a na.tive ot Jamaica. 



M2 BE,AiUi)UiIA,- 



