

TRiANDRTxY DTGYMA. 



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dinunislang to a scale, but with long sheaths. Calyx^ illumes equal, 

 lanceolate, concave, marked with 5 elevated nerves, and 5 longitudi- 

 nal, villous furrows; hair wliitish. Corolla 2 valved,a little unequal^ 

 exterior concave, acute, as long as the calyx ; the interior ilat, just 

 embraced by tlie margin of the exterior valve, both brown, when ma- 

 ture black : at the back of the interior valve occurs a neutral floret 

 1 valved, ovate, 2 cleft, green. Filaments 3. Jlnthers tavvny. i>tyle$ 

 2, longer than the corolla. Stigmas feathered, white. Seed obovate^ 

 ' nearly round, glabrous. 



Grows in dry pine barrens. 



Flowers September — October, Finuged Aulaxanthns. 





2. RuFus. E. 



A. ciilrno erccto ; foliis 

 glaberrimis ; paiiicula ma- 



Stem erect 



; leaves 

 ^ .-».»^, j.«...v.«^«..,«- vcij ^lauiuus ; panicle 



juscula, subappressa; vil- large, slightly appressed 5 



V e ry 



glabrous 



lis calycis rufis. 



E. 



I hair of the calyx rufous. 



This species differs from the preceding verj' much in size ; it is 

 every way larger. 'The leaves are destitute of hair, except at the 

 throat; and the rufons hair on the calyx is so long as to cause the 

 flower to resemble a ball of hair. It may be merely a variety pro- 

 duced by a difference of soil ; but as I had not a favourable opportu- 

 nity of examining it, I insert it here for future observation. 



Grows in savannas, and damp soils in the pine barrens, midway 

 between Saltcatcher bridge and Murphy's, on the Edisto. 



Flowers August "■ ■ 



September. 



tfous-Jlowered 



This genus is nearly allied to Panicum; but its furrowed calvx and 

 tne absence of an accessory valve sufficiently distinguisli it. " 



parate 



It ap- 

 c and liabit. Ta 



tne Paspalum it bears some affinity in the structure of the flower?, but 

 w very distinct in habit. 



MILIUlVf. Gen. pl. no. 



Calyx 2-valvis, iiniflo- 

 i'us ; valvulis subicquali- 

 bus. Coro//tt brcvissima. 

 Stigmata penicilliforraia. 



Calyx 



S valved. on 



1^ 



flowered: with the vahcs 

 unequal. Coral (a very 



short, 

 ed. 



Stigmas feaUier 



A^- 



