S8 TKIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Milium. 



Root fibrous, with several creeping shoots. Stems erect, slender, 

 3 or 4 feet high, round, jointed, leafy, smooth. Leuves bright 

 green, broad, flat, with a single riband rough edges ; their sheaths 

 strongly ribbed, very smooth. Stipula oblong, a little jagged. 

 Panicle large, erect, lax, widely spreading, of several alternate 

 tufts, or half whorls, of slender, variously compound branches, 

 scarcely rough, except in their upper part. FL solitary, slightly 

 drooping, ovate. Cal. permanently green, roughish, of 2 ellip- 

 tical, expanded, concave, ribbed, nearly equal valves. Cor. 

 nearly the shape and size of the calyx, to which it is opposite, 

 not contrary ; at first of a greenish white, polished ; after flower- 

 ing yellowish and horny, the larger valve embracing the other, 

 and both together forming a shining hard coat to the seed. Awn 

 none. Nectary a deeply cloven membrane. Anth. deeply cloven 

 at each end. Styles short, combined. Stigm. feathery. 



2. M. lendigerum. Panick Millet-grass. 



Flowers in a dense spiked panicle. Corolla awned. 



M. lendigerum. Linn. Sp. Pl.9\. Willd. v. 1 . 359. FL Br. 76. 

 Engl.Bot.v.\6.t.\\i)7. FL Grate, v. 1.49. t. 65. Schreb. Gram. 

 v. 2. 14. t.23./.3. 



Agrostis australis. Linn. Mant. 1. 30. 



A. rubra. Huds. ed. 1.26. 



A. ventricosa. Gouan Hort. 39. t. 1 . /. 2. Knapp t. 25. 



Alopecurus ventricosus. Huds. ed. 2. 28. 



Panicum serotinum arvense, spica pyramidata. Tourn. Inst. 515. 

 RaiiSyn.394. 



Gramen paniceum serotinum, spica laxa pyramidali. Moris, v. 3. 

 189. Herb. Bobart. 



G. serotinum arvense, panicula contracta pyramidali. Seheuchz. 

 Agr. 148. 



G. alopecuro accedens, ex culmi geniculis spicas cum petiolis lon- 

 giusculis promens. Pluk. Almag. 177. Phyt. t. 33./. 6. 



In fields where water has stagnated, especially towards the sea, but 

 not common. 



In the isle of Shepey plentifully. Huds. At Weymouth. Rev. Mr. 

 Lightfoot. In corn-fields atGillingham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 

 At Cley, Norfolk. Mr. Rose. 



Annual. August. 



Stem branched from the bottom, smooth. Leaves roughish at the 

 edges, with smooth, striated, slightly tumid, sheaths. Stipula ob- 

 long, torn when old. Panicle erect, lobed, but very close, taper- 

 ing, pale green, bristly, with roughish and angular partial stalks. 

 Fl. small, pale green. Cal. tumid and polished at the base ; its 

 valves compressed, membranous at the edges, rough at the 

 keel j one of them longest, and most pointed, but not awned. 

 Cor. much smaller j its outer valve ovate, concave, obtuse, 

 downy, with a jointed, rough, twisting, dorsal awn, rather longer 



