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gf^ni ^— S feet higli, terete, glabrous. Lfaves very narrow, almost 

 linear, scabrous; sheaths long, slightly scabrous ; stipules membra- 

 nous. Panicle long;, slender, composed of distinct racemes 3 

 flowered, with the flowers nodding. Calyx shorter than the coroHa, 

 2-valved ; valves large, ovate, rather acute, unequal, with tlje mar^rins 

 and summit membranous. Corolla 2-valved, unequal ; exterior valve 

 lanceolate, somewhat obovate, nerved, concave, with the summit 

 membranous; the interior much smaller, nearly obovate, ciliate* 

 Xentral Jtorel pedicellate, 2-valved ; valves unequal, obovate. Sta^ 

 men 3. Anthers yellow, stigmas white ? 



Iliave from Columbia a variety with the leaves pubescent, the flow- 

 er eviilently smaller, the valves more acute, less membranous at the 

 lummit, and handsomely spotted with purple. It is probably t!ie M. 

 iltissima, Walt, but is has scarcely character enough for a distinct 

 species. 



Grows In fertile soils. 



Flowers April. 



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DACTYLIS. 



Cnhfx S-valvis, com- 

 pressus ; altera valvula 

 inajore, carinata. Spicce 

 ^ggJ'egatai et capitatse. 



1. Glomeuai A. 



Califx S-valved, com- 

 pressed ; one \alve large^ 



keeled. Spikes clustered^ 

 aggregate, and in heads. 



D. panicula secunda, | Panicle secund, clus- 

 glomerata. Sp. pi i. p. | tered. 



408, 



Eng. Botanj, No. 3S5. 



^oot perennial. Stem 2 — S feet liigh, terete, glabrous, tenves li- 

 ^«ar, carinate, very scabrous; sheath scabrous; stipules lacerate; 

 j'anic^e leaning one way ; flowers clustered at tiie extremity of each 

 wanch; in small spikes, each 2 — 4 flowered. Valves of the calyx 

 ^nequal, lanceolate, very acute, mucronate ; the keel and margins 



nely ciliate. Exterior valves of the corolla lanceolate ; the keel 

 O'late, with a short straight awn near tlie summit, !as in Bromus) ; 

 Interior valve reflexed, with the margins finely ciliate, 2-cleft at the 

 summit. Stamens 3. 



Grows near Charleston. James liUnd. A native of Europe ; now 

 naturalized. ^ 



Flov.ers May— June. Clustered Dactylic. 



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