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TRlANDIilA DIGYNIA. 



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I can find nothing in the structure of the flower to authorise the 

 exi3ression "caljcibus geminis" in the specific character bjLinnfeus. 

 I iiave tliercfore omitted it. 



Crows in rich^ drj, sliaded soils- 



Creejniig Fankum. 



Flow6rB August 



October, 



9. GlBB 



p. race 



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E. 



multifloi 



appressis, spicam t 

 rei'ereulibus : calv 



Racemes many flower 

 ed, appressed, resemblin« 



vulis conspicue nervosis. I of the 



columnar spike 



strongly 



exteriore basi dbba : flo- nerved, tlie extei 



ribus caduci 



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boiis at base 

 caducous. 



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flow 



Root annual ? Stem ascending 

 lower joints sometimes takii}"; root. 



and 



erect, columnar, glabrous; 



„ ;, Leaves li near -Ian ceolate, soit«- 



what scabrous, pubescent, expanding ; slieaths shorter than the joints, 

 t.ie lower ones hispid, tlie upper nearly smooth. CahfX 2 flowered, 

 hermaphrodite and neuter,- nerves of the valves like ribs ; valves 

 loosely appressed, and like the whole plant, tin.o-ed with dark purple. 

 Corolla^ valves of the hermaphrodite flower only half as long as t!ie 



calyx • of the neutral flotet, a little shorter than the calyx. Mhen 

 white. "^ 



Grows in damp and wet soils, 

 riowers throujili tlie summer- 



Purple Panicim' 



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10. MOLLE. 



r splcis paniculatis, al 



secundis, patenti 



Spikes panicled, alter 



bus ; spiculis appi 



Us, pedicellatis, secundis 



mudcis. Sp. pi. i.p. 340 



mg on 



qianding, 

 one side 



flow 



lets approximate, p 



spike 

 edi 



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ich. 1. p. 47. 



cillate 

 less. 



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side, awn 



•6 feet high, columnar,!^; 

 dth soft down, the joint' 



iJoo? fibrous, perennial. Stem erect, 4 



low smooth, towards the summit cloathed ^lu. , - . , 



t. vsetl vvitii purple, and pubescent. Leaves 12—18 inches long, S'* 

 brous, channelled, tlie margins nearly entire; the sheath as lon2 - 

 the jomts, g abrous ; the throat ciliute, pubescent and purple on we 

 outside, blowers in racemes? buds in two rows. 2—3 flowered, one 

 **!n '>V;'"'^-' ^'^ frequently abortive. Rachis triquetrous, ver/ 



viihu^. Cabjr two 

 valvi'5 concave, acute 



valved ? two flowered, hermaphrodite and i»a'«' 

 e, hairy, the exterior a little longer. Corotln ^ 



)vver two valvAfl o1,..^4..„'*i.„„ +i.« ^alw • oft'"' 



^y nieiubraaous 



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