Agrostis, TRIANDRIA DIGYNlA. 



31S 



Culms ramous, creeping to a great extent, Avith from four to ei<^ht 

 inches high of their flower-bearing extremities, erect, smooth, filiform, 

 and very firm. — Leaves very small, and smooth. — F ankle erect, li- 

 near ; ruinijications and flouers adpressed, from one to two inches 

 long. — Calj/x, exterior vaive smaller than the interior. — Corol as lar"e 

 and long as the inner vaUelet of the calyx. 



3. A. Matrella. Liim. Sp. PI. ed. IVilld. i. 3m. 



Creeping. Leaves pungent. Spikes terminal, solitary, few-flow- 

 ered. 



A native of the barren sandy lands, near the sea on the Coast of 

 Coromandel. 



4. A. diandra. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. i. 371. Retz. Obs. v. N. 37. 

 Smooth ; culms erect, from one to three feet high. Panicle linear 



branchlets short, expanding ;^oa;e;-s paired, diandrous. Calj/x scarce- 

 ly half the length of the corol. Seed naked, obovate, rugose. 



Beng. Bena-joni. 



A native of moist pasture ground, in the vicinity of Calcutta. 



Culms nearly erect, from one to three feet high, almost cover- 

 ed with the sheaths of the leaves. — Leaves narrow, tapering to 

 a line point, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths slightly bearded.— Pa- 

 nicle linear-oblong, bowing a little, often a foot long, coniDosed of 

 expanding, alternate, compound, seemingly simple racemes. — rFlow- 

 ers in pairs on a common peduncle, but unequally pedicelled. — Ca- 

 lyx, valves equal, scarcely half the length of the corol, smooth, 

 membranaceous. — Stamens two. Seed narrow-obcordate, droppinf' 

 from the caJyx and corol, brown, obtusely rugose. 



5. A. maxima. R. 



Culms erect, from four to twelve feet high. Panicle ovate, ex- 

 panding. Calijces minute, exterior valvelets of the corol fringed 

 with long hairs. — Stamens two. 



