TRIANDIIIA BIGYNIA. 



101 



Hoof perennial. Stem erect, 2 — 4 feet high,tcrete5 smooth except- 

 ing at tiie joints. Leaves somewhat hinceolate, scabrous along the 

 margins, and on tlie under surface, nearly smooth above; sheaths a 

 little sliorter than the joints, hispid, Avith the hairs retrorse. Branches 

 of the panicle nearly erect. The jloicers much larger than in the 

 other species, closely imbricate, sprinkled with short stliT hairs, and 

 fringed along every nerve; the valves so broad as to form a flower 

 nearly orbicular. Stamens 2, (in every flower that I have examined) 

 shorter than the calyx. Styles shorter than the calyx. Stigmas' 

 white, feathered. J\'*ectaries 2, oval ? larger than the };crm. 



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Grows in Camden county, near the Satilla river. 

 Flowers 



Dr. Balihvln. 



Round-Jiowered Leersia. 



3. Oryzoides? 



L. panicula effusa, ir 

 jusciila; floribus triandi 

 scabris, patulis ; 



Panicle effused, large ; 



flowers triandrous 



sca- 



gliimis 



brous, expanding ; glumes 

 carina conspicue ciliatis. I with the keel conspicii- 



E 



ously ciliate. 



Virginlca. 



Stem 



Sp: pi : 1. p. 325. 



Mich. 1. p.-39. 



A plant in. all respects larger than the L. ^„. 



S--4 feet high. In this the panicle is large and every way diffused, 

 with the branches sometimes pendulous. Flowers nearly sessile oa 

 tlie common peduncle, imbricate, appressed to each other not against 

 the stem ; the keel of each valve conspicuously c liate. The Viry;iuica 

 appeared to me always monandrous, this manifestly triandrous. 

 %/fis in both species shorter than the corolla, projecting at the sides. 

 Leaves very scabrous. 



Grows in the river swamps at Ogechee. 

 Flowers October—November. Sn 



Near Charleston. 



id ing -flowered Leerslth, 



PHALARIS. Gen. pl. 106. 



Calyx 2.valvis, carina- 



^usj longitudine 

 corollatn includensi 



4. AiMliRlCANA. 



E. 



P. panicula 



spiciformi 



oblonga, 



Calyx 2 valved, keel ed, 



sequalis, equal in length, enclosing 



the corolla. 



Panicle oblongc, resem 



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glumis caly- | bling a spike j glumes of 



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