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5S DlANDRlA DIGYNIA 



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Root fibrou*i, perennial. Stem erect, assurgenf, 1 foot tiigb, a lit- 

 tle scabrous near the suimnlt. leaves linear, acute, slightly furrow- 

 ed, flat, hairj, a little scabrous at base, ending in a striated sheath 

 sliorter than the joints, hairy at the throat. Stipule membranaceous, 

 glabrous, ovate, 2—5 lines long. Flowers in an appressed terminal 

 |>anicle, crowded, resembling a cylindi^ical spike, Calyx^ exterior 

 ▼alve ovate, acute, membranaceous, the midrib j»;reen, hairy ; the in* 

 tcrior valve similar, but twice as long, obscurely 3 nerved. Corolla^ 

 valves equal, shorter than the ooter valve of the calyx, truncate, vil- 

 lous : with an awn at the base of each valve ; awn of the outer valve 

 as long as the calyx, a little geniculate in the middle ; awn of the inner 

 ftraight and as long as th.e valve itself. Flhments 2, longer than tlie 

 calyx, capillary, expanding tliroudi the sides of the glumes. « 



lobed, emarginat^; at each end, white. Germ lanceolate, 



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Anthers 

 acute. 



Styles 2, filiforui, longer than the corolla. Stigmas feathered, white. 

 Seed one, oblong, 



Probably imported, now common. Found S miles from Savannah j 

 en the O^echee road, and near Charleston. 

 Flowers May— June. 



EPJANTHUS. IVIicH. l.p. 54. 



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Calyx bivalvis, subse- I Calyx 2 valved, the 

 quaJis. hasi villosissima. } valves nearly equal, very 

 Corolla bivalvis, inaequa- villous at base. Corolla 

 lis, gluma interiore juxta a valved, unequal, the 

 apiccm longissime aris- | inner glume bearing a 



tata 



very long awn near its ^ 



summit. 



um, 



i. Alopecuroides. 



E. villis involucranti- | Hair \\k „.. 



bus calyce multo longio- | much longer than the 

 nbus ; aristis rectis. E. | calyx 3 awns straight. 



E. Saccliarolcles, Mich. 1. p. 55. 

 Anthoxanthum giganteum, V\ alt. p. 

 ' Androp(^on alopecuroides, Sp. pi. 4. p. 9 II. 

 Saccharu.n giganteum, P^rsh, 1. p. 73. 



J?oof fibrous, perenniai, forming large tufts. Stem herbaceous, erect 



6—10 



villous. Leaves 



tltt 'S,?Z*„«T. -"'' -'/. -^«1J- ^hanaeUed, sUiate 



ierrulate 

 terminat 



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at the throat. Stijpu e membranaceous, ciliate. J^lowers in a crowd 

 «1, very vdlous panicle^ 2--3 spikelets from each bud or eve; ulii 



