346 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Eleusbie. 



Obs. Cattle are not fond of it. 



5. E. verticillata. R. 



Erect, smooth, from one to four feet high. Leaves bifari- 

 ous. Spike lets numerous, panicled. Calyces from eight to 

 twelve-flowered ; glumes daggered ; Seed oblong, wrinkled. 



It is a native of moist pasture ground. 



Culms erect, round, smooth, from one to four feet high. 

 Leaves as in the last described. Panicle erect, oblong, com- 

 posed of many verticelled, expanding, round, sessile, linear 

 spikes, much resembling those of E. indica ; spikelels imbri- 

 cated in two rows on the underside of the spikes. Calyx 

 from eigfht to twelve -flowered, corol-like. Corol ; exterior 

 valve ending in a long dagger ; inner valve membranaceous. 

 Seed oblong, wrinkled, arilled ; in this species the aril is fully 

 as delicate as in E. tegyptica, and is nearly found whole on 

 the full grown or ripe seed. 



6. E. calycina. R. 



Erect, from two to three feet high. Panicle linear. Spikes 

 numerous, alternate ; glumes of the calyces equal, many times 

 larger than those of the corol, daggered, three-flowered. Seed 

 three-sided, wrinkled. 



Teling. Wadata-tok«-g?«ldee v 



Grows in small tufts on dry pasture ground, but generally 

 amonost bushes. 



Culms erect, generally about two feet high, much covered 

 by the leaves. Leaves very thinly scattered with hairs. Pa- 

 nicle linear, erect, from eight to twelve inches long, composed 

 of many sessile, expanding, alternate, second spikes. S/iikelets 

 occupying, as in the other species, the underside of the spike. 

 Calyx generally three-flowered, glumes equal, twice as long 

 as the three flowers they embrace, each ending in a long, 

 sharp dagger. Corol, valves obtuse. Seed three-sided, wrink- 

 led. I cannot say that 1 have seen the aril in this species, 



