TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Milium. 87 



Root perennial, or annual. Stems erect, leafy, jointed. Pa- 



. nicle loose or dense, much branched. 

 The hardened corolla, forming a coat to the seed, affords a 



mark of distinction between this genus and Agrostis, no 



less obvious than important, as those most deeply versed 



in grasses will most readily allow. 



1, M. cffusum. Spreading Millet -grass. 

 Flowers in a loose spreading panicle, without awns. 



M. efFusum. Unn. Sp. PL 90. mild. v. I. 360. Ft. Br. 75. Engl. 



Bot. V. 16. t. 1 106. Curt. Land, fasc, 4. /. 12. Knapp t. 19. 



Hook. Scot. 24. Leers\8.t.8.f.7. " Fl. Dan. t. \\43." Schrad. 



Germ. v. 1. 197. Smcl.300. 

 M. n. 1525. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 243. 



Gramen miliaceum. Rail Syn. 402. Gcr.Em. 6./. Loh. Ic. 3./. 

 G. miliaceum vulgare. Maris, v. 3. 197. sect. 8. t. 5./. 10. 

 G. sylvaticum,paniculamiliaceasi)arsa. Bauh. Pin. 8. Theatr. 140. 

 /. 141. Scheucln. Agr. 133. t.3.f. 6. 



In rather moist shady places, frequent. 



Perennial. Jane, July. 



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

 3 or 4 feet high, round, jointed, leafy, smooth. Leaves briglit 

 green, broad, flat, with a single rib and'rough edges ; thAr 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 vah-es. Cor. 

 nearly the siiape 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. Ann 

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

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



2. M. lendigerum, Panick Millet-grass. 

 Flowers in a dense sjiikcd panicle. Corolla awned. 



M. lendigerum. Linn. Sp. PL 0\. mild. v. i . 359. Fl. Br. 76. 



Engl. Bot. V. 16. M 107. Fl. Grac. v. 1. 49. /. 65. Schreb. Gram. 



v.2.\4. /.23./.3. 

 Agrostis australis. Linn. Mant. 1. 30. 

 A, rubra. Huds. ed. 1. 26. 



A. vcntricosa. Gouan Hort.SD. t. if. 2. Knnp}> f, 25. 

 Alopccnru'« vetidicosus. Hwls. rd. 2. 28. 



