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ANDROPOGON 7. Minus, paniculd fparfd, fpicillis fimplicibus alter natis 



hexacetis. 



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e fmaller Andropogon, with fix briftles to every flower. 



Obf. Gluma exterior ; £? calycis & corolla, in tres fetas dejinit. 



ANDROPOGON 8. Poly dacly Ion, fpicis paucioribus hirjutis, medio pedun- 



culato. 



The larger polydadtylous Andropogon. 



The flower-fpikes of this plant are generally from four to feven, fituated at the 

 extremity of the (talk j and each of the calycine glumes terminates in a (lender beard. 



ANDROPOGON 9. Minus paniculd fparfd, fpicillis paucioribus fimplicibus 



alternatis. 



The fmaller Andropogon y with, a loofe fpreading panicle. 



This little grafty plant is frequent about Old-harbour. The outward glume of the 

 bovver is tripartite at the top, and ends in three rugged briftles. 



HOLCUS 1. Sylvaticus minor, paniculd fparfd, foliis brevioribus lanceolato- 



ovatis. 



Panicum miliaceum viride, foliis latis brevibus, &c. Slo. t. 72. f. 3. 



The fmaller Wood- Grafs. 



This little plant is very common in the woods of Jamaica, and agrees, for the 

 moft part, with the Guinea grais, both in the arrangement and formation of its 



flowers. 



feeds ferve to feed the fmaller forts of birds. 



The (talk and leaves are excellent fodder for all forts of cattle, and the 



HOLCUS 2. Major affurgens, culmo comprejfo, fpicd laxdfpatiofd, 



Guinea Grafs. 



This plant, like the Scotch grafs, is frequently cultivated in Jamaica, to fupply 

 their (tabled and working cattle with food. It is planted, like the other, by the 

 . joint or gem, and alfo by the root; but does not require near fo much moifture, and 

 is reckoned a more hearty fodder. It is not fo much cultivated in the illand as a plant 

 of this nature ought to be; for the lands about the towns are too fubject to droughts 

 to produce it in any perfection ; and the people in the other parts of the country, 

 who have not the fame profpect of gain, are too indolent not to make any (hift, ra- 

 ther than be at the trouble of planting it ; never coniidering how much time and 

 labour is loft annually in feeking for other fodder, which is neither fo good, nor 

 can be fo eafily obtained ; nor do they ever confider the loffes they fuftain in (lock, 



ior the want of abundance of good wholefome food. 



The characters of this plant agree pretty well with thofe of the Panicum, in ge- 

 neral : but the flowers commonly grow very luxuriant, and, though often herma- 

 phrodite, are generally obierved to be diftindl males and females, furrounded by fe- 



parate involucra, and (landing on diftindl footftalks within the fame 

 are as follow : 



Periantium. 



cups 



They 



Corolla. 



Gluma quadrivahis : extima minima, ad tergum proximo? 

 pofita j inter me dice oppofita, cblonga, cochlea ris in/tar exca- 

 vate ; quart a interior, me?nbranacea, oblonga. 



Gluma bivahis, florem hcrmaphroditum vel femineum amplettens. 



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