Panicum. triandria digynia. 285 



This species is generally found on cultivated lands, grow- 

 ing amongst the different sorts of small or dry grain. 



Root fibrous. Culms sometimes near the base resting on the 

 ground, and striking root ; the rest erect, ramous, smooth, a 

 little compressed ; from one to three feet high. Leaves sheath- 

 ing, nearly bifarious, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths hairy. 

 Spikes terminal, columnar, from two to six inches long. Flow- 

 ers solitary, or joined to the rudiments of one or two more, 

 short-pedicelled, numerous. Involucels longer than the flow- 

 ers, consisting of one bundle of hairy bristles which issue 

 from the middle of the underside of the pedicel. Calyx ge- 

 nerally two flowers, in which case one is male, the other her- 

 maphrodite, with its corol, as in the family. The male corol 

 consist of one membranaceous glume between the inner valve 

 of the corol and inner glume of the calyx, it has three stamens 

 only. 



Obs. It may probably be P. helvolum of the Supplemen- 

 tum Plant arum, 197. 



In India we have two or three varieties of this coarse grass. 

 Can any of them be Alopecurus indicus ? The small reddish 

 one comes very near it. 



6. P. holcoides. R. 



Erect. Involucels numerous, scattered, one-flowered, alter- 

 nately one longer and woolly, and another shorter and smooth ; 

 flowers sometimes polygamous. Seed oblong-, smooth, resem- 

 bling' a small grain of common oats. 



Beng. Swat*. 



Grows, with the former, on cultivated lands, but chiefly 

 up amongst the mountains. 



Root fibrous. Culms erect, ramous, from two to four feet 

 high, round, smooth. Leaves sheathing ; sheaths half the 

 length of the joints; mouths bearded. Spikes as in P. glau- 

 cum, but larger. Flowers solitary, short-pedicelled, without 

 order. Involucels numerous, bristles entirely surrounding the 

 flower ; of two sorts, the largest twice the length of the flow- 



