3QG TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panicitm. 



cordate base, from thence tapering to a fine point, downy ; 

 sheaths hairy, their months want the stipule-like process. 



Panicle .small, about one and :i half or two inches long - , oval, 

 ramous ; ramifications smooth. Flowers oval, solitary. Calyx, 

 two-flowered, the three valves are nearly equal, all smooth 

 but striated ; the inner one appearing more like a second 

 valve to the male floret than one of the calyx, and the more 

 so as it drops oft* with the seed, leaving the two exterior ones 

 behind. Corof, one male, or sometimes one neuter, and one 

 hermaphrodite. Seed oval, smooth. 



40. P. brevijbliitm. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 353. 

 Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, cordate. Panicle ovate, 



very ramous, partly hid in the sheath of the exterior leaf, se- 

 cond valvelet of the calyces bearded; corol three-valved. 

 Seed ovate, smooth. 



Grows, with the two preceding species on shaded pasture 

 ground, and is very much like them. 



Cvlms creeping, as in the two last described species, but 

 rather more robust. Leaves broad, and somewhat cordate at 

 the base, waved ; margins of the sheaths ciliate. Panicle, the 

 lower part always confined within the sheaths of the extreme 

 leaf, oval, from three to five inches long, composed of numer- 

 ous very fine capillary ramifications, the common rachis and 

 larger branches very wool ly /.F/owers obliquely-oval, numer- 

 ous, on very fine, long pedicels. Calyx ; the exterior valve 

 lanceolate, the second boat-shaped, with the outside covered 

 with very long soft wool, the third oval. Corol, with a neuter 

 valve, but no stamen. Seed oval, smooth, white. 



41. P. tenellum. R. 



Culms ascending. Leaves long. Panicles oblong, very 

 ramous. Floicers solitary, remote ; second valvelets of the 

 calyces recurved, and pointed. Corol, three- valved. Seed 

 oval, smooth, five-nerved. 



Grows on pasture ground, borders of cultivated lands, &c. 



