Paspalum. tk^andria digynia. 2S3 



Obs. Cattle are very fond of these two species, whether>green or 

 dry. 



3. P. longiflwum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. JVilld. i. SS'i. Retz. Obs. 



iv. 15. 



Spikes paired, terminal, horizontal. Calyces oblong, oblase, 

 smooth. Culms creeping. 



Teretu-pi'Uu. liheed. mnl. 12. p. 81. ^ 44. 



Paspalum longijioni.n. Retz. Obs. iv.p. 15. 



A native of low pasture ground. Compare it with P. distichum. 

 Linn. ^p. ri. ed. JlWd. i. 322. 



Root creeping. — Culms creeping, with their extremities ascend- 

 ing six or eight inches high, juiuted, smooth. — Leaves sheathmg, 

 alternate, bifarious, short; mouths of the sheaths bearded. — Sptkes 

 paired, terminal, sessile, spreading, second. — Flowers in two rows, 

 alternate, ol^long, somewhat paned, smooth. — Calyx andcwo/ wilh- 

 out nerves. • 



4. P. longij'olium. R. 



Erect, simple. Leaves as long as the culms. Vanicle of many 

 simple, alternate, diverging spikes scattered round a three-sided 

 rachis. Valvelets of the calyx thi'ee-uerved. Seed 0V2A, kicid, and 

 marked with minute pits. 



Of what country this is a native is uncertain. It appeared in the 

 Botanic Garden in 1807, in a place where plants from Sumatra 

 had been planned, it is therefore more than probable that the seed'? 

 were in the earth. 



Culms several Trom one root, simple, straight, jointed, nearly 

 erect, round and smooth, height of the whole plant when in flower 

 above thrett feet. — Leaves long, viz. from one to three feet, sheaths 

 included, slander, acute, smooth, except the edges when rubbed 

 backward. Sheaths longer than the joints of the culm, and smooth, 

 except at the top, where there are a few, long, soft hairs near the 

 short scariose iigula, — Panicle composed of from twelve to twenty- 



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