TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 160 



iloot annual. Stem 6 — 12 inches highy erect, geniculate tiear the 

 toot, columnar, roughened near the panicle. Leaves 2 — 3 inches' long, 

 tubulate, acute, glabrous on the Under surface, pubescent and 

 tH;htlj scabrous on the upper. Panicle leaning, composed of sim- 

 pie racemes. Spikelets lanceolate, 6 — 9 flowered, neai ly sessile. 

 Valyx i valved, valves unequal, slightly keded, scabrous, smaller thati 

 the corolla. Corolla 2 valved; exterior valve slightly keeled, scabrous, 

 ferminaling in an awn as long as the valve; interior valve smaller^ 

 verj acute. Filaments 2? scarcely longer than the germ. ^Anthers 

 purple. Stigmas plumose. 



The anthers And stigmas appear in this species rarely to project out 

 of the corolla. 

 Grows in very dry soils. Common. 

 Flowers April — May. 



POLYSTACHYA ? Mich 



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F. culmo procumbentej | Stem procumbent, tak- 

 mdicante; panicula ma- ] ing root; panicle large^ 

 juscula, siibsecunda; spi- | secund ; spikes linear- 

 cislineari-lanceolatisjsub- [ lanceolate, generally ten 

 deccmfloris, aristatis. E. | flowered, awned 



-^lich. 1. p. 66. Pursh, 1. p. 83. 

 J. muUiflora, Walt. p. 81. 

 ^. procumbens, MUhl. Cat. 



. ^'^^ perennial ? Stem 1—2 feet Tiigh, procumbent, branching, taki 

 iag root at the joints, columnar, glabrous. Leaves 8 — 12 inches longj 

 J«n-o\v, subulate, scabrous; sheaths much longer than the joints'* 

 •"pule a lacerated membrane resembling hair. Panicle erect, com- 

 P^^d of many simple racemes. Spikelets sessile, generally 10 flow- 

 ^ed. Cfl/yx 2-valved, the exterior small, very acute, keeled; the 



VA^-*^ t^ '^""^^ ^^ *'^® corolla, avvhed. Cm-olla 2 valved ; the 

 fnor keeled, lanceolate, terminated by an awn rather shorter thaa 



J« wtve;the awn of the upper florets diminishing in length; awn and 

 *««J scabrous. 



tJmK^ ^' "^"^*i^o^a» '^^'alt. and F. polystachya, Mich, it bears much 

 ^moiance, but does not agree exactly with tlie description of either. 



rows m wet soils, around ponds. Paris Island. Rare to me. 

 'lowers September— October. 



Froctimbent Festuca. 



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VLUCS. 



^- ^ panicula gracili, co- 1 Panicle slender 



; • ^^'^'"^lAia gracin, CO- JPamcle slender, ap- 



mata ; spitulis quadri- | pressed ; spiklets four- 



n^, aiistatis, pilosis ; I flowered, awned, hairy 5 



floribus 



nionandris. E. | flowers monandrous 



•^P- pi. 1. p. 422. Pursh, 1. p. 83, 



'• myuros,Mich. 1. p. 66. 



'• quadriflora, Walt. p. 81. 



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