ISO TRIANDEIA DIGYNIA. 



Boot perennial. Stem erect, about 2 feet blgli, sometimes branch* 

 ing, columnar, almost hispid. Leaves 3 — 6 inches long, 1 — 1^ inches 

 wide, serrulate, slightly Maved, pubescent and soft underneath, gla- 

 brous, though sometimes sprinkled with hair on tlie upper surface. 

 Flotvevs larger than in any other of our species. Calyx 2 floweret!, 

 hermaphrodite and neuter, pubescent; accessory valve ovate, acute, 

 small ; proper valves obovate. Corolla^ valve of the neutral floret 

 one half as large as those of the hermaphrodite. Jinthers and Sli^* 

 mas dark purple. jyectarieSj two glands at one side of the germ, 

 obovate, unequally two cleft at the summit. 



txrows in shaded places. Somewhat rare. From the P. viscidum 

 it differs, by its flowers twice as large, by its leaves glabrous 

 thenpper surface, by its stem not viscid, nor mark 

 which characterises the other species. 



Flowers April— May, perhaps through the summer. 



on 



by the ring 



Lar^e seeded Fanicim 



17. Pauciflorum. E. 

 P. panicula patente I Panicle expanding, few 



pauciflora ; floribus ma- flowered ; flowers very 

 jusculjs ; foliis angusto- | large ; leaves narrow- 

 lanceolatis, basi cDiiatis H lanceolate, ciliate at base; 



Taginis pilosis. E. i sheaths hairy 



JRoof perennial. Stem 12 — 18 inches high, erect, slightly genicu' 

 late, and disposed to branch at every joint, a little roughened. UB,vti 

 3 — 4 inches long, 3 — 4 Knes wide, lanceolate, very acute, very gla- 

 brous on the upper surface, a little roughened on the under, \m^^^ 

 Hfith long hairs, particularly near the base ; sheaths shorter than the 

 joints, hairy, with the throat bearded. Panicle small. Flowers so • 

 jtary, racemose, oval, slightly pubescent; accessory valve very small- 

 Anihers ? and Utigmas dark purple. 



Grows in close damp soils. In Georgia, not very rare. Resem- 

 bles P. Scoparium in fruit, and P. villosum somewhat in habit j 

 much more glabrous than eitlier. 



Flowers May. 



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i8. ViR 



P. culmo foliisque gla- I Stem. and leaves very 

 berrimis; panicula diffu- | glal:6*0us; panicle diffuse, 

 sa, maxima ; glumis acu- I very large ; glumes acu? 

 minatis, Isevibus. E. minate*, smooth. 



Sp. pL 1. p- 3o2. 



Mich. 1. p. 48. 



CUytan, p. 12, No^ 578 and 



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