Andropoyon. triandria digynia. 263 



valved, the inner one ending in a short rigid arista. Stamens 

 three, &c. as in the genus. 



Male Flowers. Calyx and corol as in the male, except 

 that there is no arista to the corol. 



Obs. It is of a very coarse nature. I never found it touch- 

 ed by cattle. 



18. A. verticil latus. R. 



Erect. Leaves long, and very hairy ; panicle conical ; ra- 

 mifications verticelled, three-flowered ; one hermaphrodite, 

 sessile, with two awns ; and two-pedicelled, male, with one 

 awn each. 



A native of mountains, flowering about the end of the wet 

 season. 



Root woody, perennial. Culms erect, simple, very leafy, 

 smooth, round, towards the base soiled, as thick as a small 

 goose-quill ; from four to six feet high. Leaves approximated, 

 eighteen inches long, and three quarters of an inch broad ; 

 margins set with minute spines, and particularly hairy on the 

 inside near the base. Panicles erect, conical, lax, from eight 

 to ten inches long, composed of many verticelled, most simple 

 filiform, waved, bowing, three-flowered branches, as in A. 

 aciculatus. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Calyx, glume one- 

 flowered, two-valved, inner valve awned, both hairy, having 

 the base surrounded with much brown hair. Corol one- valv- 

 ed, a long twisted awn occupying the place of the other. 

 Stamens three. Style yellow. 



Male Flowers pedicelled, one on each side the herma- 

 phrodite one ; pedicels covered with brown hairs. Calyx, 

 exterior valve a little hairy, and awned, base involved in 

 short brown hair. Corol two-valved. Stamens three. 



19. A. saccharides. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iv. 91*2. 

 Sub-erect. Leaves remarkably long. Panicle oblong, 



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