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hearty food for labourers 



nd adorned with a fimple cylindric fpike at the top. The g 







PANICUM 8. ErecJum maximum, panicula fihgulari ~erecld fparfc 

 Milium Jndicum arundiriaceo caule* Slo. Cat. p. 25. 

 Milium lndicum femine fufco juba iarga. Muf. &c Thez. Zey. 









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Guinea Corn 



This plant is cultivated by moft people in the Ifland, efpecially in the low lands, 

 where it feems to thrive beft ; it rifes generally . to the height of fix or feven feet, 

 often lefs, fometimes more, and moots by a hollow jointed and foliated ftalk : the 

 grain is round and rarely above half or three quarters of a line in diameter, it makes 

 fine white flower which is very nourifhing, and is generally ufed to feed their ftock 



and Negroes in time of Scarcity 



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PANICUM 9. EreElum maximum , pa?ii cults plurimis dech 



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lndicum arundinaceo caule, &c. Slo. Cat. 25 



Guinea wheat. 









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and appearance ; it has 



This plant is very like the foregoing both in iize* grain 



been but lately introduced to Jamaica, and is diftinguifhed from the Guinea corn by its 

 bearing fucceffive panicles from all the upper joints. 



ARISTIDA 



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1 . Spied laxd tenui arijiis longijjimis crinitd. 



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Ariftida L. Sp. PI. 



Gramen Avenaceum panicula minus fparfa % &c. Slo. Cat. 35. & H, t. 2. 



Gramen Avenaceum Maderafpatanum. Pk. Phy. t. 191. f. 3. 



The bearded Grafs. 



Periantium. Gluma bivalvis uniflora fimpl 



Corolla. Gluma univalvis teres convoluta % in tres arifias longijjimas fetaceas dvfmens. 



This plant is frequent in Jamaica ; and feldom rifes above ten. or 12 inches from 

 the ground ; the ftalk is (lender and the panicles fimple and bearded. 



Minor, panicula efpicis fimplicibus compofita, glumis hexa 



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ARISTIDA 







The fmaller bearded Grafs 







This plant is fomewhat fmaller than the foregoing,, from which it alfo differs 11 

 1 formation of fome of the floral parts, which in this fpecies appear in the follow 



mg manner 





Periantium. Gluma trivahis 



oblong 



_ i acuminata ; media ampleclens & 

 fetis tribus brevioribus ornata ; tertia linearis rimaque gluma 

 media appojita 6? tribus longioribus fetis terminata. 



BRIZA 1. Tenuiffima, paniculis quafi lanuginojls pedunculis brevibus & 



tenuijjimis incidentibus. 



Pratenfe, Joliis anguftijimis, paniculo &c. Slo. Cat. & H. t. 73. 



The fmall trembling Grafs. 



Gramen 







This little plant feldom rifes above fix or feven inches, and is fuftained by a very 

 flender weakly ftalk ; it is eafily diftinguifhed by ics delicate branches, fine leaves and 

 downy head. 



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