318 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Agrostis. 



four to eight-compound, spreading, secund, racemes. Rachis oi the 

 racemes three-sided. ^/'/ozi^ers below, on a coramon-pedicel, be- 

 sides which each has its proper pedicel, but of unequal length ; above 

 single— C«/j/x, valves equal, pointed, and very iiairy. — Carol, the 

 exterior valves ends in an awled point. 



AGROSTIS. .Schreb. Gen. A'. Hi. 

 Calyx, glume one flowered, two-valved. Carol two-valvcd, larger 

 than the calyx. 



1. A. coromandeliana. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. n'illd.l.37i. Retz. Obs. 

 iv. K 52. 



Culms from four to eight inches h.igh. Panicle vcrticelled; rami- 

 fication simple, secund; inner valve of the calyx as long as the co- 

 rol ; exterior valve niiriute. Seed naked, obovate, rugose. 



Teling. Yellika-tMngoo-gadi. 



A native of pasture ground. 



Culms spreading near the base, then ascending, from four to eight 

 inches long, mostly involved in the sheaths of the leaves. — Leaves 

 rather broad, waved and slightly ciliated ; mouths of the sheath beard- 

 ed. — Panicle oblong ; large for the size of the grass, composed of 

 expanding, simple, verticelled, secund racemes. — Flowers awnlesg, 

 generally in pairs, unequally pedicelled.— Ca/yx, exterior \2L\\'t small, 

 like that of the accessory valve in Panicum. Liner as large as the 

 corol, and gaping with it* when the seed ripens. — Seed, it drops un- 

 covered by the corol, leaving it and the calyx in their places ; it is 

 of an oblique oval form, brown, and transversely rugose. 



2. A. tenacissima. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. JVilld. i. 574. 



Smooth, creeping. Leaves minute. Panicle filiform : exterior 

 valvelet of the calyx shorter than the corol. 



Teling. Toema-gerzka. 



A small, rigid species ; growing on old, poor, stiff, pasture ground, 

 where it fortis extensive plants of tenacious turf. 



