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, Cruciatum ajfurgens, Spicis fubbirfutis tenuioribus £? hngic- 



ribus deorfum frugiferis. 



Gramcn Dactilon Spicis gracilioribus, &c. Slo. Cat. 33, £? H. 68. 

 Gramen DacJilum Americanum, &c. Pk. t. 189, f. 7. 

 Cavara-Pulli H. M . P. 12, t. 74. 



The long fhanked cruciated Grafs, 



This Grafs is rather more common than the foregoing : It is a diftincT: fpecics, 

 ind grows generally to the height of fourteen or fifteen inches above the ground. 



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GRAMEN 4 . MajuSy Culmo comprejfo nodofo diftichefoliato atque ramofe. 



Gramen geniculatum foliis brevibus, &c. Pk. t. 1 89, f. 3. 



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Dutch Grafs. 



This plant is very common in all the fwampy bottoms round the I/land, and 



grows fometimes very luxuriantly in the mountains : Its ftalk is compreilcd, and 

 furnifhed with many leaves and branches difpofed in a diftich order: It grows fometime 

 to the length of two or three feet j but the lower part of the ftalk is generally ob- 

 ferved to creep along the ground. 



GRAMEN 5. Minimum diftiche Jo/iatum, /pica Jlrifliori fimplici creel a 





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Crab Grafs 



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This elegant little plant is very common about Hunts-bay. The ftalk is a little 



compreiTed, and feldom rifes above four or five inches from the 





GRAMEN 6. Majus ajfurgens, paniculd longiori, fpicis Jimplicibus com- 



pre fits ad margines villofis inferne frugiferis. 



The larger rifing Grafs. 



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Periantium. Gluma bivahis, vahulis orbicularis comprefjis. 



Corolla. Gluma bivahis, valvulis comprejfis rigidis nitidis genitalia Jlricle 



amplettentibus. 



This plant is very common at the Angeh y and rifes generally to the height of 



three feet and a half, or better ; it is a coarfe fort, and not much ufed. 



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GRAMEN 7 . Loliaceum, panicula e fpicis Jimplicibus tcretibus conflata, 



Jpicillis minimis co mprejjis diflichis alternis. 

 Gramen DaSlilon panicula longa fpicis plurimis gracilioribus & longis. 



Slo. Cat. 34. & H. t. 70. 



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The rifing Grals with very /lender flower-ipikes. 



This plant rifes commonly to the height of two feet and a half, and is furnifhed 

 with a spreading panicle at the top, which is generally compofed of a good many 

 delicate flender fimple fpikes. 



GRAMEN 8. Minimum, /pica fimplici, calicibus echinatis. 



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'he fmall Savanna Grafs with echinated Valves. 



Periantium. Gluma uniflora bivahis cchinata ; vahula altera carinata, altera 



planiujcula. 



Corolla. Univahts. 





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