Andropogon. TaiANDP.iA matmk. IflT 



involved in brown short hair. — Carol two-valved, the inner on€ end- 

 ing in a short rigid arista. — Stamens three, SCc. as in the genus. 



Male Flowers. Calj/x and Corol as in the male, except that 

 there is no arista to the corol. 



0^5. It is of a very coarse nature. I never found it touched by 

 cattle. 



18. A. verticillatus. R. 



Erect. Leaves long, and very hairy j PamcZe'conical, ramifications 

 verticelled, three-tlovvered; one hermaphrodite, sessile, with two 

 awns; and two-pedicelled, male, with one awn each. 



A native of mountains, flowering about the end of the wet season. 



Root woody, perennial.— Cm/;ws erect, simple, very leafy, smooth, 

 round, towards the base solid, as thick as a small goose quill ; frona 

 four to six feet high.— leai'es approximated, eighteen inches long, 

 and three quarters of an inch broad ; margins set with minute «pines, 

 and particularly hairy oa the inside near the base. — Panicles erect, 

 conical, la\, fro-.n eight to ten inches long, composed of many ver- 

 ticelled,most simple, filiform, waved,^ bowing, ihree.tlowered branch- 

 es, as in A. acicu/atns. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Ca/j/r, glume one-flowered, 

 two-valved, inner valve awned, both hairy, having the base surround- 

 ed with much brown hair. — Corol one-valved, a long twisted awn 

 occupying the place of the other. — Stamens three. — Sfi/le yellow. 



Male Flowers pedicelled, one on each side the hermaphro- 

 dite one ; pedicels covered with brown hairs. — Calj/r, exterior valve a 

 little hairy, and awned, base involved in short brown hair. — Curol 

 two-valved. — Stamens three. 



19. A. saceharoides. Linn. Sp. VI. ed. Willd. iv. 912. 

 Sub-erect. Leaves remarkably long. Panicle oblong, composed 



of simple, alternate, filiform, short-pedicelled, erect, patent branch- 

 es ; neuter florets two-valved and pedicelled. 



A large, leafy, sub-erect species ; a native of the mountaiiiouf 



parts of the northern Circars» 



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