PANICUM. 35 
Gramen decumbens, internodiis dense pubescentibus, vaginis 
hispidis, faucibus dense pilosis, foliis basi cordatls rotunda- 
tisque, primo aspectu perfoliatis lanceolatis a medio attenuatis 
ciliatis plus minus crispatis. Spicarum basibus hispidis. 
Partium situs et alternatio. Pl. CXXXIX. Fig. 73. 
a. Outer broad glume. 
b. Upper inner long do. 
c. Glumaceous outer palea of male flower. 
d. Inner palea of, ditto. 
e. Outer, or as to the axis, inner palea of hermaph. flower. 
J. Inner of, ditto. 
In ripas prope flum. Jellinghey : Sept. 8th, 1835. 
No good difference is given between this and P. umbrosum 
of Retz. in Kunth's Agrostog. p. 90. 
22. Panicum glaucum Linn, Pennisetum glaucum Br. Pr. | 
p. 195 (51) ; charactere generis optimo. Setaria glauca Kanth 
Agrostog. 1 p. 149. Charactere generis incompleto. 
Spica solitaria cylindrica undique florifera. Flores solitarii 
(an duorum aliorum abortu) in pedunculi 3 fidi dichotomi 
pedunculis lateralibus extrorsum, aristus longissimas sca- 
bras gerentibus pedunculo fertili nudo: lateralibus “ involu- 
cris" auctorum. Flos interior vel posticus, antice planiusculus 
postice ventricosus. Gluma bivalvis biflora antica vel exte- 
rior minor lanceolata 3-nervis, interior posticave major latior- 
que 5-пегуіз, nervis in ambabus infra glumz apicem confluen- 
tibus. Fios exterior masculus palea exterior glumacea ovata 
mutica 5-nervis, interior membranacea conformis minor 2-ner- 
vis. Stam.3. Lodicole 2, minime. Perianth. interior posticumve 
hermaphrodit postice convexum, antice concavum. Palea ex- 
terior major chartacea mutica transverse rugosa, 5-nervis: in- 
terior minor membranacea, 2-nervis. Lodicule 2, majores 
quam in masculo. Stam. З, Styli 2, Stigmata 2, penicillata. 
