130 I1QRTUS JAMAICENSIS.- funning 



agrees extremely well with all labouring and stabled cattle. This discovery is owing to 

 Mr. Waller), who had frequently tried the expeiiment before I left Jamaica, and has- 

 always found it answer beyond his expectations. He is a gentleman of a very happy 

 turn of thought, and a great promoter of every sort of curious-and useful industry. 

 Browne. 



2. DISTiCHUM. TWO-SPIKED; 



Gramen dactylon bicorne spiels purpura scent ibus inajus. Sloane, v. 

 1, p. 112, t. 65, f. 3. 



Spikes two, almost erect, one of them sessile ; florets oblong, smooth ; culm 

 ascending. 



Culm simple, decumbent towards the root ; leaves lanceolate-acute, flat, short ; 

 sheaths striated, hairy at the base. Spikes almost four-cornered, one shortly pedicelled ; 

 rachis fiat, even; florets approximating, alternate, sub- sessile, ovate, acute. Glumes 

 both of the calyx and corolla equal, ovate, striated ; filaments longer ; anthers very 

 dark blue; stigmas penciled blue. Su\ This has a crooked repent stem, the flower 

 stalk fourteen inches high, with purple blackish stamens. It grows in holes and places 

 where water has stood in the savannas. S!oune. 



3. VIRGATUM. ROD-LIKE. 



Gramen dactylon majus, pannicula longa, spick phtrimis nudis crassis. 

 Sloane, v. 1, p. 112, t. 69, f. 2. 



Spikelcts panicled alternate, villose at the base ; flowers in pairs. 

 The root is thickly fibrose and perennial, and throws up several annual erect stems,. 

 of about four feet high, and thicker than a quill at the base, round, glossy, and in part 

 covered by the sheaths of the leaves, which are seated at the joints of the stems, and 

 axe smooth on both sides, and hispid in a retroverted direction on the borders, they are 

 about two and a half feet long, with a sheath almost a foot long, and about an inch wide. 

 The spikes are alternate at the top of the stem, very spreading, shortlj- foot-stalked, 

 hairy at their origin, and about four inches long, in number uncertain, from four to 

 twelve. The shaft or mid-rib of the spike is flat, membranaceous, and smooth, green. 

 The flowers are obversely- ovate ; very compressed, and marked on each side by a lon- 

 gitudinal nerve. The glumes of the calyx are villose at their tips on the borders, the 

 anthers are oblong, hastated and incumbent, and of a dingy yellow; the stigmas purp- 

 lish ; the seeds glossy and brownish. Sw. This grows in savannas plentifully. 



4. PANICULATUM. PANTCLED. 



Gramen miliaceum, pamcula viridi, vel purpurea-, Sloane, v. I, p, 

 115, t. 72, f. 2. 



Spikes- panicled, vei ticillate aggregate. 



This is an annual grass, with the panicle as it were in whorls, with very numerous, 

 linear, filiform, very" narrow spikelets, all directed one way ; the (lowers are digested 

 in a double row, a:id are sharpish. Linneus. Culm a foot high, jointed; leaves nine 

 inches long, sheath rough ; panicle three incites long, purple or green. It grows, in 

 clayey moist grounds. Sloan-:. 



5. VAGINATUM- 



