Andropogon, triandhia digynia, 257 



Hermaphrodite Flowers. Calyx two-valved, villous — Co- 

 rol one,-valved, a long arista occupies ihe [j'lace of the lisual second 



valve. Sectari/ and stamen as iu the male — Germ oblong; styles 



two, villous. 



ANDROPOGON. Schreb. Gen. N. 1566. 



Polygamous. Flozvers in pairs, hermaphrodite, sessile. — Calyr 

 two-valved, one-flowered.— Coro/ fof the most part two-valved, and 

 generally awned. Male, or neuter pedicelled. — Calyx as in the her= 

 maphrodite. — Carol for the most part two-valved, generally awn- 

 less. 



SectAst. JViih terminal spikes, 



l.A.serralus. Refz. Obs, v. 21. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. iv. 9OS0 

 Spikes solitary, or paired, imbricated with sessile, hermaphrodite, 



awned flowers on the outside, and two rows of awnless pedicelled 



male ones on the inside. 



Sans, -^jrft, Venee, ^-^j Kh'.^ra, H^'^, Gwree, ■^It^t, Ugnree^ 



WUTIX^' Kh«rag«ree, T[x:X3I^t> Gwragwree, ^^«{i^!, DevMtaio, 



31 PTiS Jeemoota. 



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J3eng. Detarfl, or Dettfl, 



A native of pasture ground. Flowers during the cold season. 

 Culms at and near the base creeping, branchy, with only about 

 a foot of their flower-bearing extremities erect, and as thick as a 

 sparrow's quill, round, smooth, joints slightly vilhms. — ieares small, 

 inside a little hairy, mouth of the sheaths hairy. — Spike terminal, 

 generally solitary, though sometimes there are two or even three; when 

 single, long-peduucled,when two, each has a very short, erect pedicel; 

 the spike or spikes are about au inch or an inqh and a half long. 

 ■ — Flowers in pairs, numerous, imbricated^ on one side are two rows 

 of sessile, hermaphrodite ones, and in the other two rows of pedi- 

 celled ones ; male rackis, waved, jointed and hairy. Hermaphrodite 

 flowers sessile,— Ca/j^ce^ two-valved, the exterior one bioad^ conV" 



