Port. TRIANDRIA DIGYN1A. 337 



12. P. tenella. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 395. 



Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high. Panicle linear- 

 oblong, verticelled. Spikelets pedicelled, from four to six- 

 flowered, smooth. 



A native of pasture ground. 



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

 Leaves smooth, mouth of the sheaths much bearded. Panicles 

 linear-oblong-, composed of verticelled, filiform, expanding, 

 ramous branches, having always at their insertions and sub- 

 divisions a few fine, long hairs. Spikelets pedicelled, from 

 four to six-flowered. Calyx and corol smooth. Seed oval, 

 brown, smooth, falling from the corol when ripe, as do all 

 the other species of this genus that I have yet seen. 



Obs. The anthers shine through the valves, as in P. punc- 

 tata, and indeed in most, if not all the Poas. 



13. V.plumosa. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 403. Retz. Obs. 



iv. 20. 



Sub-erect, smooth. Panicle ovate-oblong ; ramifications 

 scattered, horizontal; insertions hairy; rainuli depending-. 

 Spikelets pedicelled, from four to six-flowered ; inner valve- 

 lets of the corols ciliate. 



Tsjaina-pullu. Rheed. Mai. xii. p. lb. t. 41. 



Gramen fumi. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 10. t. 4./. 3. 



Is found growing in tufts on pasture ground. 



Culms filiform, many, ramous, spreading a little at the base, 

 above erect, from one to two feet high, round, smooth. Leaves, 

 mouths and margins of the sheaths fringed, with long deli- 

 cate white hairs. Panicle oblong, composed of many capilla- 

 ry, alternate, horizontal, ramous branches, their insertions and 

 sub divisions are fringed with a few fine, white hairs. Spike- 

 lets minute, pedicelled, depending, from four to six-flowered. 

 Calyx smooth. Corol, inner valve fringed with hairs in the 

 back. Seed oblong, brown, smooth. 

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