“340 TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Inner, 2 valves. Valves spear-shaped, acute, small, 
pubescent, resting against the back of the blossom at 
the base. BHO 
Bross. 2 valves, smaller than the calyx. Valves oblong, 
concave, sharp; the innermost the smallest. phtes 
Nectary achaved ; leafits spear-shaped, i toa 
point, transparent, greenish, bulging at the base. 9 
‘Stam. Filaments 3, hair-like. Anthers oblong, forked. | 
Pisr. Germen egg-shaped. Styles 2, hair-like, united at 
_ the base. Summits woolly. ae 
S. Vess. none. The blossom grows to the seed like a 
crust, and does not open. gan 
SEED single, egg-oblong, tapering to a point, smooth. 
~~ Oss. In our Phalaris arenaria (the Phleum arenarium of 
_ Linneus) the calyx is single, but not being lopped, or furnished 
with 2 spit-points, accords less with the genus Phleum than 
with that of Phalaris. | 
PA’NICUM. PI. Il. f. 7. Gaertn. 1. on 
Cat. Husk 2 valves, containing 2 florets. Valves 7 
yi fibrous, the outer rather lower, very small. 
me floret hermaphrodite, the other either male or ~ 
“neutral. . 4 
Bross. of the hermaphrodite floret, a Husk of 2 valves; 
valves nearly egg-shaped, istly; Outer convex, its — 
Fhe embracing the /nne ia which is smaller and 
atter. if 
| Neutral or Male floret, a Husk of 2 valves, the Outer 
(placed in the bosom of the smaller yalye of the calyx) 
fiattish, fibrous; Inner valve mempbranaceous, flat, its 
= turned a generally small. 468 . 
ectary Q-leayed, v all, bulging. In. 
neutral oes none, ee 
Steed = denaint See Anthers oblong. ee 
Tt. Germen roundish. Style ir-like. Summits — 
"Racor ‘yles 2, hair-like wer 
S. Vess. none; the blossom adheres to the seed, and does 
_ Not open, eed 
SEED single, covered, Toundish, but flatted on one side. 
: Ons. Overlooking the inner valve of the neutral floret, the 
outer seeins to belong to the calyx, so that most Botanists have 
mentioned the calyx as having 3 valves, one of them very 
small.—-Valoes generally 4. The 1st or outermost; the 2nd 
opposite to the outermost, and covering the outer valve of the 
