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TRIANDRTA DIGYNIA. 



A fine winter grass, remarkable for its deep green colour, and soft 

 •wcculent leaves. As it bears the summer heats, in close, rich soils; 

 it wants only size to render it a valuable acquisition to the farmer. ' 



Not uncommon near Charleston. 



_ Supposed to have been brought 



from_ the ^upper country. It is probablj only a variety of the P. pra. 



Green Foa — Grun grass. 



tens! 



Lin. 



Maj — J 



9. AycrsTiPOLiA? 



# 



P. foliis lirieari!)us5 in- [ Leaves linear, invo- 

 volutis; panicula siibcon- | lutej panicula somewhat 

 ferta; spiculis lanceolatis, crowded ; spikes lanceo- 

 acutis, quadiifloris; flo- late, acute, four flowered; 

 ribus basi villosis. E. | flowers villous at base. 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 387. 



R. stolonifera ? Muhl. Cat. 



^ 



Hoot perennial. Stem 1—2 feet high, glabrous, columnar. lMve$ 

 glabrous, 2—6 inches long, in dry weather involute; the stem Iwei 

 wider than those that appear to be from the root; stipules membranous, 

 fthort. Panicle (with us) much crowded. Valves of the /orc^s acute, 

 5-nerved, generally tinged with purple, very villous at the base. ^ 



The spikes are more crowded, and the florets larger than in P. viri* 

 dis. 



^ Grows around Charleston. Sent me from Middleton place, Aslile; 

 river, by Mr. Moulins j from Columbia, by Mr. Herbemont. 

 liowers May. J\''arrow4eavtdToa. 



10. TfcNELLA .? 



P. panicula subvcrticil- [ Panicle somewhat verfi- 

 lata, patente ; spiculis L- dilate, expanding; spikes 



rtaiibiis, 



6 



lO-fl 



oris 



linear, 6 



1 



0- flowered ; 



floribus parvulis, glabiis, I flowers small, glabrou?. 



\alva extcriore corollfe ( with the exterior valve of 

 caduca; culmo decum- the corolla caducous; 



bente. 



E. 



stem decumbent. 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 395. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 80. 



X 



Annual, 



6—12 inches ng- 

 the — '^"^f**^'' 



2 inches long, subulate, scabrous on the upper . 

 ^nooth un the under ; throat of the sheath contracted, and verj nair) 

 'Cunic^e slender. eiLDandincr : hran/-v.oo ^.^.«,...rUof mrot-tSriliatej 



