MLLtcA. TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 139 



f. 4, 5. Trim Jgrost. 126. Panicle raeemose, sub- 

 secund. Melic-grass^ 



M. speciosa M n h I. : smooth ; panicle loose, erect, few- 

 flowered ; branches simple ; florets obtuse. M u h I. Amer, 

 Phil. Trans. \\\.^,\&Q, Gram. I. p. 87. Willd.Enum. 

 h BeroL I. D. 102. K o e m. ^ S c h u It. If. p. 526. M. 

 altissima 0. IVilld. ^pec. I. p. 385. i\JL glabra Mich. 

 i"/. I. p.62. Pursh FLl.p.ll, E I lio i t Sh \. p. 154.> 

 M. glabra Walt. Car. p. 77. 



Root perennial. Culm 3 — 4 feet high. Leaves linear, flat, pu- 

 bescent beneath. Stipule membranaceous, lacerate. Panicle 

 a little secund ; branches few and solitary. Sfiikelets half an 

 inch in length, 3 — 5 on each brancli. Glumes ovate-lanceolate ; 

 the inferior shorter, very snnooth, without nerves. Corolla 

 many-nerved ; the superior valve pubescent on the margin. 

 Abortive fioret on a peclxel, between the other florets, consist- 

 ing of 3 hemispherical valves enveloped one within the other, 



Hab. On mountains in Pennsylvania. June. Muhlenberg. 

 My specimens are from Noi'th-Carolina. 



47. ATHEROPOGON. Muhl. 



Spikes m a UBilateral raceme. Calyx 2-valved5 

 membranaceous, 2-flo\vered ; inferior glume setiform. 

 Perfect floret 2-valved ; inferior valve 3-toothed, or 

 3-bristled ; superior valve bifid. Abortive Jloret pedi- 

 cellate, 2-valved, 3-bristled. Muhl. ap. TV ill d. 

 Spec. IV. p. 937. Nutt. Gen. I. p. 77. Roem. 

 ^ Schult. Gen. 251. Boutelgua La gas. Gen. 

 et Spec. nov. IV. p. S. Actinochloa et Dineb^ 

 spp. P. de Beauv, Tri^ena Humb. & Bonp. 

 EuTRiANA Trin. *^grost. p. 125. 



A. apludoides Muhl.: spikes racemose, distant, pen- 

 <iulous ; perfect floret with the inferior valve tricu?pidate ; 

 lateral bristles in the abortive floret half the length of the ter- 

 minal one. Muhl. 1. c» Gram. p. 287. Pnrsh FL 1. 

 p. 75. Spreng. pug. I. p. 8. Kutt. Gen. I. p. 78. 

 Torrey in SilL Jour, IV. p. 58. R o em. ^ S chult, 

 II. p. 414. Chloris curtipendula Mich. Ft. I. p. 59. 

 fVilld. Spec, IV. p. 927. EuTRiAii a curtipendula Triv, 



Root perennial. Cubn about a foot and a half high, geniculate 

 at the base, assurgent, terete. Leaves linear, at first flat, but 

 becoming involute, smooth, except a few hairs on the margin 

 near the base. Lower sheaths somewhat pubescent, hairy at 

 the tliroat. Stifiule n very narrow fringe. Spikes 20 — 40, 



