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mous, expanding, Insertions hairy, spikelets twfenty-flowered. Seed 

 globular. 



A pretty large species, growing in tufts on old walls, so exactly 

 resembling P. loiioluides as to be easily mistaken for it. It has much 

 the habit of Briza Eragrostis. 



Culms sub-erect, winding, round, smooth; from- one and a half to 

 two feet high. — Leaves much larger than in the last species, and the 

 mouths of the sheaths more hairy. — Panicle oval, very large, gene- 

 rally more than half the length of the whole plant, branches alter- 

 nate, nearly horizontal, ramous, with a brown, hairy gland in the axil 

 of each division of the panicle. — Spikelets white, or pale green, 

 lanceolate, large, about Iwenty-tlowered. — Seed globular, broun, 

 and smooth. 



19- ?• faniculata. R. 



Erect, smooth, from two to four feet high. Leaves long; mouths 

 of their sheaths bearded. Fanicle oblong; ramifications most nu- 

 merous, filiform ; insertions hairy. SpV elets from four to sixteen- 

 flowered; valvelets of the calyces ciliate. Seed globular. 



Culm svib-erect, round, and smooth ; lergth from one to two feet 

 high to the panicle, which is about the same length, making the 

 whole height from throe to four feet — Leaves large, mouths of the 

 sheaths very hairy. — Panicle oblong, very large, comnosed of numer- 

 ous, ramous, filiform, expa-nling branches, their insertions and sub- 

 divisions involved in fine, long, white hairs. S;j/7.e/^^5 long-pedicel- 

 led, linear, from four to sixteen-flowered. — Corof^o^t^r valve round at 

 the apex, and three-nerved; inner one slightly ciliate on the back. 



20. P. gangetica. R. 



Grows in very dense tufta. Panicle thin ; spikelets linear, from 

 thirty to forty-tlowered. 



A native of the banks of the Ganges, but scarce. 



Culms numerous, and ramous, growing in crowded tufts, smooth 

 in every part, general length about a {oot,— Leaves few, small, and 

 smooth. — Panicle ovate, composed of a few, remote, alternate; sub- 



