of the Genus EhrBarla. 4<5 



■minibus bieviorcs, divaricati. 5'//g-wa/rf albida, bijubata : 

 pilis longis. 

 &;w« oblonguin, comprefTiufculum, bafi oblique attenuatum, 

 glabrum, femidiaphanum; valvulis cor. inclufurn. 



Alii flofculi monoici, heimaphroditis in cadem paniciibi 



mixti. 

 Mafc, Piftillum aboitiens. 

 Fern, niamcnta longifllma, capillaiia abfque antheris, circa 



piftillum fertile. 



Dr. Sniith defcribed this fpecies after a dried fpecimen in the col- 

 legion of his friend Thouin at Paris. Having myfelf cultivated the 

 fame for fome years, it has been in my power to add a little to the 

 fpecific defcription. From the manner of growing of tliis kind, as 

 \v€llas of others examined in the herbarium of Thunberg, it feems 

 that, producing manyihoots or runners from the roots, they form 

 grafly turfs. What has appeared to me mofl: fuigular in the 

 F.. pdjikca is, that the lowermoft peduncles of the panicle lean hori- 

 zontally towards one fide, or downwards. The flowers are, perhaps, 

 the fmalleft of the genus. The lateral wrinkles (rugx)'of the ex- 

 terior corolline valves alfo indicate an affinity to the foregoing, whofe 

 flowers they refemble in form. Their likenefs, however, to fome of 

 t\it panicum genus certainly juftifies the fpecific name given by Dr. 

 Smith. 



3. EHRHARTA ramofa. 



£. glumis coroll. extcrioribus fcabris retufis ; panicula coarclata; 



culmo ramofiffimo fuiFrutefcente. 

 McUca ramofa, corollis glabris muticis, panicula coaraata, culmo 



ramofo. Thunb. prodr. p. 21. Sp. pi. ed. Wild. p. 38?. 

 ^^'^' Vr. H " Eljrharta 



