loe 



TRXANDKIA DIGYNIA. 



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summits. Cali/x 2 valved, nearly equal, very acute, acuminate, com 

 pressdd, the keel serrulate. Corolla 1 valved, shorter than the calji 

 rather acute. Anthers white, iityles short. Stiginas white. 



T!iis is a fine delicate winter grass, but never appears to grow 

 orouslj enough for the scythe, nor will it bear, except in shaded or 

 damp soils, the heat of summer. 



Grows in damp shaded places. 



Flowers September— December. Perennial Trkhodiim,' 



vig 



LEERSIA. Gex^. PL. 10.5. 



val 



Calfj. 



0. 



Corolla 



i. ViK 



Calyx 0, 

 alvedj* closed 



Corolla 2 



L. panicula laxa, par- Panicle loose 



lihus 



sparsis ; flo 



ppt 



dris, scabiis ; gli 



na parce ciliatis 



monan- 



E 



tered branches, 

 flowers appressed 

 nandrous, scabroui 



keel of the 2:lumes spai 



small ; 

 ; nio- 

 ^ : the 



;ly cDiate 



Stem erect and decumbent, compressed, 



Sp: pi: p. 325. 



^oot fibrous, perennial. 

 Bparintly branched, 2—3 feet high, hairy at the joints. ^-^- 

 iitiear-lanceolate, acute, scabrous ; sheath compressed, withthe angles 

 acute, very scabrous, shorter than the joints: stipule membranous, 

 not hairy. Panicle terminal, composed of a few racemes with m 

 flowers on one side; flowers caducous. Corona, valves equal; t^e 

 exterior compressed, boat shaped, mucronate, 5 nerved, nerves and 

 Keel ciliate, and the glume also scabrous ; the interior linear-lanceo- 

 late, with the kee straight, slightly ciliate ; the flowers so closely ap- 

 pressed as generally to bend round the common peduncle. FiUnei'^ 



1 r lono-f.r that! tVio nn».n,ll« e...r._ . ^. . r ^ .. 



1 ? longer than the' corolla. 

 ' ed oblong. 



Grows in damp soils. 

 Flowers August— Sept 



Stifles two. Stigma feathered, wliite 



Virginian Leersia- 



«. Lenticularis? Mich. 



^ L panicula erecta ; flo- 



ribus niajusculis, subor- 



biculatis. diamlris, imbri- 



andi 



Panicle erect ; flo^' 



ly orbicular, 



imbricate, ^ 



J^t """"'l'^^^ lici visc^ue I the keel and 



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