TniANDIlIA niGYNIA. 



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1. Gentculatus ? 



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A. culuio genicuLito ; 

 calycis carinis ciliutis : 

 aiistis gluma diiplo Jon- 



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Stem geniculate ; keels 





gioiihus. 



E. 



of the calyx ciiiate ; 



twice as long as the 

 rolla. 



a vv a 



CO- 



Sp. pi. p. 558. 



A. pratensis.'' Waif. p. 74. 



^not perennial. 5fem geniculate, ascending, terete, very j^labrous, 

 about one foot high, l^ax-ps 2—4 inches long, 2—3 lines wide, ;rla- 

 bious, the margins and upper Surface a little roughened; sheaths 

 shorter than the joints, glabrous ; stipules ovate, membranous. Flow- 

 tvs in a compound c;j-Iindrical spike ? cioaelv'appressed. Ca^x 2 

 valved ; valves equal, obtuse, compressed, hairv, the keel ciiiate, al- 



most villous. 



r^ro^fa 1^ valved, as long as the caljx, glabrous, obtuse, 



Anthers 



with an avvn attaciied to its base twice as long as itself, 

 white. Stigmas white, almost simple. 



Grows in damp and clajej soils. In rice fields, common, 

 r lowers in March. 



PANICUM. 



Gen. 



m 



PL. 107 



Call/. 



al 



minmia 



Calnx 3 



d 



1. C 



E 



tenor valve veiy small 



P. spica tereti, striata 



iilflorc 



ulatis, 



floscu] 

 tibus. 



fiiultip 



Spike terete 



rigidis, scabiis, 

 paulo superan- 



one flowered 



strict 

 parted 



3 



the 



E 



ments 

 rid J. 



? 





terete, subulate, 

 scabrous, a little 



ger tlian tlie floi 



Root perennial ? Stem erect, terete, scabrous 



a 



w u>ng,-5z/ i>n;;";.s;:^aCsc;^orr th^^el'^ui^:* 



/«ticr;„rm.ni"l ft' /^''T''" ^'''^P"'*'^PP^-^^«^^-''>^id spike. 

 aHnrCer S„ H n ^-^tenor segments very short, the intLior 

 ^■/•v 3 valv^ . f "'""' ?" 'T^ ^"•^ somewhat pungent. C«- 



Pn pe, valvt'nl J^^^^^o^J valve about half the length of t1-.e others; 



ratC lon'et T ^?*^"''', ^~^ "''■'^*^' ^'"^^"^^ ^^ ^he roro^^^ equal, 

 wh tT ^ ^''*" ^'" "^^^>"^- '^^''^'''''' P"Tle. ^'fi^mas feathered! 



^ekyTl!knd?Gl?Ll ^"^ "I'^^^^ted to Dr. Baldwin, who found it on 



OMerd 



cunu 



1, 



f -1 



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