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TRIANDRIA. DTGYNIA. Panicum. 1 1 5 



Greatly resembling the P. Stride, but the hunches of the 

 Spike longer, 3 or 4 together, pointing downwards on one side. 

 Flowers green. Pistils purple. 1 or 2 rough bristles to each 

 flower, and longer than the flower. Little fruit-stalks, after the 

 falling off of the flowers, terminated by a lopped, hollow, white 

 cup. Spike- stalk cloven, with 3 or 4 comers. Straws smooth ; 

 spreading ; 2 feet high. Leaves naked. Linn. Spike 2| to 4 

 inches long, and near ~ inch broad. 



Kneed-grass. Rough Panick. Cornfields between Putney and 

 Roughampton. Ray. — Battersea fields. Curt. A. June, July. 



P. Spike cylindrical, soft to the touch : partial involucrums vir'ide* 



with 3 bristles and 1 floret. 



Curt.-Ger. em. 17 '. Z-Park. J 154. 2 and Z-Fl. dan. 852- 



Ger. 20. 8-C. B. th. 138-H. ox. viii. 2. lO-^. B. ii. 

 431. 1-Spike ; Leers 2. 2-Fructtf. Scheuch. 2. 2. 



* 



Spike 1 to 2» inches long, | broad, green or with a purplish 

 cast from the bristles being more or less coloured. 



Green Panick. Sandy fields. [Corn fields, Ditghingham, 



Norf. Mr. Woodward. — Many places about Norwich. Dr. 



Smith.] 



A. July. 



P. Spikes alternate and in pairs : little spikes sub-divided : Crusgal'li. 



husks awned, and rough with strong hairs : spike- 



stalk with 5 angles. 



Var. 1 . Awns not above once and a half as long as the calyx. 

 Linn. — Awns none. Curt. 



Curt. -Math. 407-//. ox. viii. 4. row 1. \5-Dod. 550. 2- 

 Lob. obs. 25. 2-Ger. em. 85. i-ParL 1154. i-Ger, 79> 5- 

 C. B. th. 136\ 



Var. 2. Awns 10 times as long as the calyx, 



Ger. 15. 1~C. B. th. 137-7- B. "• 44 3. 2-Ger. em. {L6. 1- 

 Park. 1154. \~P ankle, iSc. Leers 2. 3-Fructif. Scheuch. 

 2. 2. F. 



Loose Panick. Wet corn-fields : rare. About Battersea. Near 

 Martha's Chapel, by Guildford. Huds. — Between Deptford and 

 Greenwich ; near Petersficld, by the rivulet, Hants. Ray. A.Aug. 



P. Spikes finger-like, knotty on the inside the base: flow- sanguina'le 



ers in pairs j without awns : sheath of the leaves 

 dotted . 



Curt. 242-£. lot. U9-Schreb. l6-H. ox. viii. 3. row 1. 2- 



Buxb. v. 6b-Clus. ii. 217. 2-Lo6.ebu 13. l-Ger. em, 27. 



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