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TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



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15. FLriTANS. 



P panicula ramosa 



Panicle brancliins; 



J 



spiciilis apprcssis, tereti- | spikes apprcsserl, coluin- 



bus. niultifloris ; spiciilis 



obtusis, 



septernnerviis 



basi 



duplicato-nervosis. 



Smith, Fl. Brit, t. p. 95. 



nar, many flowered ; flo- 

 rets obtuse, seven nerved ; 

 the nerves double at base. 



Festuca fluitans, Sp. pi. 1. p. 426. Mich. 1. p. 66. 



Bij. p. 23. Pursh, I. p. 8i. 



Ruot peiennial. Stem erect, glabrous. Leaves 6 — 8 inches lon<>:, 



—5 linos wide, glabrous on the under surface, scabious on the upj^er 

 lli'Jitly keeled with the midrib ; sheaths large, loiij;ei tluur the points, 

 glabrous; stipules large, membranous. Panicle long, expanding, 

 branches simple. Spikes sessile, or on very short footstalks, generally 

 9—10 flowerered. Valves oT the calyx unequal, smaller than the 

 corolla, membranous'. Exterior valve of the corolla \^vy obtuse, 7 

 Derved, sometimes mncronate at the summit by the projecting nerves ; 

 tt base are the rudiments of intermediate nerves j under a lens slight- 

 ly pubescent, particularly along the nerves, and scarious along tao 

 Margins ; interior valve longer, obtuse, slightly bifid. 

 Grows in the upper districts of CaruU?ia. 



Flosvers M 



aj 



August. 



A 



16. Reptans. 



Mich. 



P. cuimo decunii)ente 



5 



I'epente ; panicula parvii- 



la,subfasciculata; spiciilis 



lineari-laiiceolatis, multi- 

 fl ■ 



Stem decumbent, creep- 

 panicle small, fie- 



HM ; 



oris 



quently 



spikes linear-lanceolate, 



gluniis acutissi- ( many flowered; glumes 



very acute. 



mis. E. 



Mich. 1 p 69, Pursh, 1. p. 81. 



**• hypuoides ? La Maick. I.lus. 1. p. 185. 



^'Jof annual, (.Vlich.) Stem decumbent, 6—18 inclies long, 'al'ing 

 sM ff ^^^^ i"i'^*s> glabrous, terete. Leaves subulate, fetria e, acute, 

 ♦L_^?7 pubesce-.t, 1—2 inches lonq;; sheath Jienerally shorter t aa 



Spikes 



t^iejomts, hairy at the throat. P«nic/e somewhat diffuse. 

 ^ 2'> flowered. Exteiior valves of the coro la taperiaj; to a very 



1 



^"ite point, pale straw olour, midrib and 2 nerves green, and proia- 



cnt?9 outer nerves short, and obscure, 

 n the specimens given me bv Mr. Correa, there were in some 

 'P'kes 40 florets. * 



Jf ows in cultivated, high lands, near Reanfort, in fertile soils. 



_oUected in the upper country, by Mr, Correa de Serra. 



blowers through the summer. Creepn^ Foa* 



