lot TfilANDRIA DIGYNIA 



i. Paspalodes. 



U. culino repente, as- | Stem creeping and as* 

 cendenteque j foliis apice | cending ; leaves contract- 

 conti'actis ,• spicis con- | ed near the summit ; 

 jui^atisj floribus alternis ; 1 spikes conjugate; flowers 

 gfuniis ovato-lanceolads. alternate ; glumes ovate- 



E. 



lanceolate. 



M. (llstichum. Muhl. Cat. 

 Digitaria paspalodes. Midi. 1. p. 46. 



Ront perennial. Stem creeping and ascending, compressed, gla- 

 brous. Lfaves 3— 6 inches long, 4 lines broad, obtuse, ciliate, gla- 

 brous, about half an inch from the summit contracted, and feeling ai 

 if crossed by a rib or nerve, yellowish green. Spikes conjugate. Koif- 

 ers alternate, one from each bud, somewhat distichous. Calijx, glumes 

 equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla, glumes equal, 

 ovate, shorter than the calyx, generally about half its length. Jnthers 

 dark purple. _ tiliginas similar, feathered. Seed compressed, ovate. 



This plant is an intermediate species between the Milium and Pas- 

 palum. From its acute calyx and abbreviated corolla, it has been 

 placed in tliis genus ; yet to the corolla the Linnean phrase " brevis- 

 sima" can by no means apply. 



Grows in close soils, on Charleston neck. Beaufort. Very com- 

 mmi, I have never seen it far from salt water. 



Flowers June— September. Ticin-spiked Miliu^^* 



PASPALUM. Ge3^. Pl. 107. 



Mores in spicis uni- I Flowers in* spike . 

 latenfloris. Calux %. ransced on one side. Ca 



biculatus! Co liix°2 valved, orbicular 



Vila 2.valvis, ejusdem Coro^Z^ 2 valved, equal in 



magnitudihio. 1 gixg^ 



1. Setaceum. Mich. 



P. culmo erecto ; foliis Stem erect : leaves and 

 vagimsque viUosis ; spicis | sheaths villous ; spikes 

 pleruiiique solitariis ; flo. | generally solitary ; flow 

 ribus bisenatis. ' 



Mich. 1. p. 43. 

 'Root Fibrous, perennial. Ste 



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leaves 



moortJ 



