An'dropogon^ tbiandria digynia. 275 



on the upper side, three feet long, and three or four mches broad. 

 Sheath as long as the panicle is when young, afterwards the whole 

 is completely bent down from the weight of the seed. — FIokcis pair- 

 ed, one hermaphrodite, sessile ; the other neuter, and pedicdled. 



Heemaphrodite Flowers sessile. Ca/yx one-flowered, two- 

 valved, both valves hairy.— CoroZ three-valved, the solitary valve 

 daggered ; dagger, shorter than the calyx. — Seed oval, white. 



Neuter Flowers pedicelled. Calyx two-valved, hairy. — Co- 

 rol one-valved, awnless. — Stamens none, 



Obs. The only circumstance that renders me uncertain whether 

 this is Holcus saccharafus of Linneusis the total want of the arista 

 in the hermaphrodite flowers; in other respects they agree. 



30. A. laxus. Linn. Sp. PL ed- Willd, iv. 907. 



Erect, from one to tifteen feet high. Panicle ovate, lax ; rami- 

 Jications sub- verticelled, conipound and decompound. Calyx hairy ; 

 corols fringed, those of the hermaphrodite three-valved, and awned, 



BenZ' K«la-moocha. 



Teliiig. Gaddi-janoo. 



Grows in hedges, on banks of water courses, and on land that has 

 lately been in cultivation. 



Root somewhat woody, perennial.— C«/m near the base bending 

 \o the earth, and there rooting at the joints, the rest erect; the 

 whole is of a firm ligneous texture, inwardly spongy, jointed, round 

 and smooth ; below naked, above coveted by the sheaths of the 

 leaves. In hedges on the banks of the rivers, &.c. where the soil 

 is good, It is often from ten to fifteen feet high ; while on a barren 

 dry soil, not more than one or iwo.— Leaves long, smooth, except 

 the margins, which are scabrous. — Panicle very large, oval, often 

 bowing, rather thin, composed of sub-verticelled, ramous, spread- 

 ing branches, with woolly insertions ; the branchlets of the branches 

 are composed of four or six pedicelled, spiked racemes. Rachisoi 

 the spikesjointed, &c. — Fioaers paired, &c. as in the other species. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile, Calj/x two-valved ; valve- 



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