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though I have found no reafoii to doubt its being fufTicicntly dif- 

 ferent from all others. C. fuha appears, notwithftanding Dr 

 Goodenough's corredion, Tnmf of Linn. Soc. v. 3. 77, to be very 

 diftindl from flava, having longer vagina (which however are 

 fhorter than the flowcr-ftalks), oval fpikes, the fruits erecl, not 

 recurved, and a rough ftcm. Its habit too differs, approaching 

 towards that of C. diftam-, but its glumes being perfectly awnlefs, 

 keep It from being confounded with any variety of the laft-men- 

 tioned. In my arrangement of the fpecies I have taken the liberty 

 of makmg fome alterations, difpofing them according to their na- 

 tural affinities, rather than their technical charaders. In the ere- 

 neric charadcr I have adopted an alteration lately fuggefled to me 

 by Dr. Goodenough himfelf, calling the permanent hufk that in- 

 verts the feed an arillus, a name which I cannot help thinkincr 

 expreffes its true nature much better than the hypothetical one 

 of neaarium, the erroneous one of capfula, or even the analogical 

 denomination of corolla. The generic charader will therefore ftand 

 as follows : 



Mafc. yf/«^«/«« imbricatum. C^/. gluma univalvis. Cor. nulla. 

 Foem. Amenl. imbricatum. Cal. gluma univalvis. Cor. nulla. 

 Stigmata 2 vel 3. Semen arillo ventricofo te^um. 



My new fpecies belong to the firft, third, and fourth fedions of 



the genus. 



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