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Itivated with any of the other productions of the Ifland ; for being once planted 





hold 

 young 



many years 



but when the main ftalk 



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moots do not pufh fo luxuriantly, and they 



a-new : this however becomes eafy to them 



hard and lignous, the 

 then obliged to 



done gradually, for they gent 



fupply the pieces as they clean them, and throw up every ftubbed or fail 

 ot they find, planting a few joints in its place. 



PANICUM 3. Praten/e minus, paniculd laxd py rami data. 



The little Field -panicum. 



This little plant feldom rifes above thirteen or fourteen inches 



the dry Savannas, and remarkable for its riling branched and pyramidal panicle 



PANICUM 4. Praten/e, valvuld exterior i remotd fetaced. 



An, Gramen Arundinaceum halepenfe, &c. Pk. t. 32. f. 1. 



ing 



very common 





The Field- panicum with a branched panicle. 



This plant feldom grows to any confiderable height, being generally found under 

 fifteen inches j it refembles the Holcus pretty much in the form and dilpofition of its 

 flowers. 



PANICUM 5. ErecJum minus, fpicd f.mplici fetofd. 



Panicum Spied tereti, involucris fetaceis foliculatis uniforis fofculo qua 



druplo longioribus. L. Sp. PI. 



Gramen Lagofoides, &c. Pet. Gaz. t. 2. 



The fmaller Panicum with a (ingle head. 





In this plant the involucrum or outward cup is divided into fix, eight or more long 

 capillary briftles, which feem to fupport the flower behind, and are always longer 

 than the other parts : the cup is fmall and fupports two flowers, the one male 

 with thinner valves and furnifhed with three and fometimes four Jlamina ; the other 

 hemaphrodite and compofed of two unequal valves, whereof the exterior is ftronger, 

 hollow and rugofe, and contains the germen with two fliles adorned with oblong hairy 

 nigmata, and attended by three fhorter filaments. ' 



The whole plant is very fimple and fedom rifes above twelve or fourteen inches. 

 I have found it in the courfe of Mammee River. 



PANICUM 6. Faniculd hngijjimd, fpicis plurimis teretibus Jimp It a bus 



refertd. 



The long fpik'd (lender Mountain-panicum. 



This plant is common at Mr. Jones's in the mountains of New Liguanee, and rifes 

 generally to the height of two or three feet; the ftalk is flender, and furnifhed with 

 many fhort and fimple fpikes from below the middle to the top. 



PANICUM 7. Erefium maximum, panic uld Jlrifid cylindraced arijlatd. 





Panicum 



Fenna H. M. 



Indicum /pica longijfima. C. B. & Slo. Cat. 26. 



P. xii. t. 79. 



The Negroe Guinea-corn. 





This plant is cultivated in feveral parts of Jamaica ; and the more eafily preferved 



long fetse or briftles defend it from the birds 



it 



fes commonly to the heig 



of five or fix feet, fometimes more, is furnifhed with large grafly leaves towards 



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