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TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Herjii, Calyx, gluma. 



Corolla y;luma 



1-florus. 



basi vel apice aristata. 

 Stamina 3. Stijli 2, tSe- 

 men 1. 



Herm. Calyx, ghime 



one flowered. 



Corolla^ 



glume awned at base or 



Masc. Cal. et 



Coi 



piiuns. 



Stamitia 3. 



at the summit. 



Sk 



mejiss styles 2. Seed \. 

 Masc. Calyx and corolla 



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Species dithice^ hahi- 



tu dvvers(e. 



1. ClLlATUS. 



E. 



like the former. 



772^725 3. 



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* Species doubtful, 

 \ distinct habits. 



Sta^ 



A. panicula ol)longa, ter- 

 miiiali ; ramulis glabris ; 

 floribus geminis ; calyci- 

 bus hirsutis ; corolla ciii- 

 ala, arista contorta.* E. 



Panicle oblong, termi- 

 nal ; branches glabrous; 

 flowers in pairs ; calyx 

 hairy ; corolla ciliate, Nvith 

 a contorted awn. 



throat; stipules membranou<», entire, notlialrj. 



Root perennial. Stem erect, sometimes decumbent, 3 — 4 feet 

 high, terete, glabrous, pubescent at the joints. Leaven 1 — 2 feet long, 

 5 — 7 lines wide, scabrous somewhat rigid, a little hairy; sheaths gen- 

 erally longer than tlie joints, glabrous, contracted, and naked at the 



Panicle naked, some- 

 what expanding, with several branches from each bud. ¥loivers\w^' 

 maphrodite and neuter ; to the terminal flower are generally attached 

 two neutral florets. Pedicels hairy. Caly.v, the exterior yalve lance- 

 olate, nearly flat, 9—11 nerved; tire interior a little triquetrous, 

 equal, 5 nerved ; both hairy, fringed and minutely bifid at the sum- 

 mit. Corolla, valves unequal, smaller than the calyx, ciliate ; the ex- 

 terior larger, lanceolate, flat, with the margins inilexed ; the interior 

 concave, terminating in a twisted awn twice as long as the calvx- 

 Filaments shorter than the calyx. Jnthers yellow. Styles scarcely 



as long 



the gtamens. 



Stigmas feathered, yellowish. Seed oblong. 



Found in the dry pine barrens on Port Royal. 

 Flowers September. 



Fringed JudrGpogon 



2. Nutans. 



A. panicula ramosa, nu- | Panicle branching, nod- 

 tante : floribus geminatis, | ding ; flowers by pa'^^» 

 aristatis; calycibushirsu- I awned, with the calyx 



* I reerret that I did not arrange the Eriunthus immediatelv before ^^^^^^^^c 

 The number of Stamens is too variable amonp: the Andropoi^^ons to form ^^^ .^j 

 character, and this sp-cies too nearly allied to the E. contorlus to be .^'^P^. ^^^1 

 jrom it ; yet whde it has the awn a^id h.ibit of the Erianthus; it is disting^i^- 



bj Us neutral florets, and the wnnt of a hairy involucrum. 



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