PASPALUM. tRIAxNDRIA. DIGYNIA. Ti 



J acq. icon, rar. f. 302. Paspalus stolonifer Flugg. 

 Roem. <$/• Schull, IT. p. 295. 



Cubji about 2 feet long, branched, geniculate, stoloniferous. 

 Sfiikes very numerous (30 — 50.) Common rachis 4 — 5 inches 

 long, angular, smooth; the partial ones 3 — 15 lines long. 

 Flowers alternate, ovate« 



Hab. In the Cedar Swamps of Monmouth County. New-Jersey. 

 July — August. Pursh. 



I have never seen specimens of this species. Pursh re- 

 marks that it is exactly the same as the Peruvian plant, he 

 having compared it with specimens of the latter iu Lam- 

 bert's Herbarium. 



3. MILIUM. L. 



Calyx 2-valved, herbaceous. Corolla 2-valved, co- 

 riaceous, oblong, concave, shorter than the calvx, awn- 

 less. Seed 2-hornec1. jXectaries collateral. Ge?i. pi. 

 110. JVutt. Ge?i. I. p. 43. Juss. p. 29. lioem. 

 'is? S chill t. Gen. 218. P.de Bca u v. t. V. f. 5—6. 

 Tr i 71. Agrost. 27. Flowers panicled. . Millet- grass. 



1. M. effusum L.: panicle diiruse, compound; branches 

 iiorizontal ; glumes ovate, very obtuse ; corolla avvniess, 

 smooth and shining ; leaves broad-linear. IV Hid. Spec. I. 

 p. 360. Smith Fl. Brit. \.^. lb. Eng. Bot. 1106. Koeyn. 

 -^ Schult. II. p. 319. 



Root creeping, perennial. Culm 5 — 8 feet high, erect, simple, 

 smooth. Leaves 8 inches or a foot in length and half an inch 

 or more broad, acute, flat, very smooth beneath, a iitile sca- 

 brous above. Sheaths smooth, striate. Sti/iulc oblong, obtuse, 

 entire. Panicle oblong, attenuate, about 8 inches long ; lower 

 branches in fascicles of 3 or 4 ; upper ones opposite. Flowers 

 few, scattered, ovate. Glumes of the calyx scabrous, obso- 

 leteiy 3-nerved. Corolla nearly equal, rather acute. Stamens 3; 

 anthers yellow. Stigmas plumose. .Yectarics ovate-lance- 

 olate, entire. 



Hab. In woods ; New-Hampshire. Collected by Dr. J. Locke, 

 who found it growing as high as a man's head, and in sufficient 

 quantity to be cut for hay. Br. M. Paine has also found 

 this grass in the vicinity of Montreal, Canada. 



2. M. amphicarpon Pursh: leaves iinear-lanceolnte, 

 hairy, ciliate ; panicle simple, contracted, bearing perfect 

 flowers ; fertile tlowers in solitary elongated radical sca,)es, 

 at length subterraneous. T n r r e y Cat. pl.^New-¥ork, p. 90. 

 Pursh Fl. I. p. 62. t. 2. {opt.) R o e m. S^- S'chu/t. II. 

 p. 320. M. cjliatum M n h I. Gram. p. 77. 



