33G TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Poa. 



10. P. diftndra. R. 



Erect, smooth. Leaves long, fine-pointed ; panicle linear, 

 half the length of the whole plant ; ramijications scattered, 

 compound, expanding-, smooth. Spikelets from four to eight- 

 flowered. Flowers diandrous. 



A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold sea- 

 son. 



Calms erect, growing in tufts, with few branches, smooth ; 

 height of the whole plant in a good soil, from three to six feet. 

 .Leaves from one to two feet long, smooth in every part, taper- 

 ing to a long fine point. Panicle linear, half the length of 

 the whole plant; ramifications thereof scattered, expanding, 

 smooth, compound, from two to three inches long. Spikelets 

 lanceolate, small, smooth, from four to eight-flowered. Corol 

 with both valves smooth, and rather obtuse. Stamens two. 

 Anthers purple. 



1 1 . P. viscosa. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 398. Retz. Obs. iv. 

 p. 20. 



Culm ascending, from nine to eighteen inches high, clam- 

 my. Panicle linear-oblong; ramijications verticelled, short, 

 spreading ; spikelets from three to twelve-flowered ; inner 

 glumes of the corol ciliate. 



This species grows in tufts on dry pasture ground. 



Culms numerous, spreading, with their extremities ascend- 

 ing, ramous, from nine to eighteen inches long. Leaves 

 small, margins involute; sheaths shorter than the joints, with 

 their mouth surrounded with long, slender, white hair. Pa- 

 nicles linear-oblong, from two to four inches long, composed 

 of short, sub-verticelled, sessile, expanding ramifications. 

 Calyx from three to four-flowered. Corol, inner valve cili- 

 ate. 



Obs. Every part of the plant is covered with tenacious 

 gluten. 



