^8 Dr. SvjK^'tz\ Botanical Hiftory 



Valvules coroUince interiores minores, ovato-lanceolatae, acutac, 

 caiinatae, muticae, nervofae, glaberrimne ; interiore parum 

 minore anguftioreteneriore: dorfo fubbicarinata. 



Ne£larii pctala minutiffima, ovata, fuperne latiora, lacero- 

 ciliata, albida. 



Filamcnta fex, brevia. Anthera oblongo-lineares, utrinquc 

 fiffiE, apice extrorfum pollen fundentes. 



Gfrww; oblongum. i'/y/Zduo. 5V/§-/«rt/^ congencrum, parva. 



This is one of the larger kinds, with a geniculated culm, broad 

 leaves, and a much branched panicle. The flowers are remarkable 

 for their pointed exterior corolline glumes, and their long arijice. 

 The glumes are often tranfverfally wrinkled, but not fo much as in 

 the E. mnemaUa. One of the calycine glumes is uncommonly fmall. 

 The number of the (lamina I have, in all the flowers I examined, 

 found to be really fix, although Dr. Smith has feen only three. Ac- 

 cordingly, I have been doubtful whether or not the plants of Smith 

 and Thunberg {hould be confidered as different ; but having good rea- 

 fon to believe that the unnamed fpecimen of E. hngiflora in the Lin- 

 naean herbarium was communicated originally by Thunberg, and alfo 

 finding his E. arijlata coinciding with the defcription of Dr. Smith's 

 E. longifiora, it is mofl likely they are not different fpecies. The 

 particular diftindion appears to confifl in the length of the arijice 

 and of the glumes, in the faid defcription flyled only mucronatte * 



8. EHRHARTA gigantea, 



E. glumis corollinis exterioribus hirfutis ariftatis ; panicula coarflata 

 fubverticillata j culmo arundinaceo, foliis involutis. 



• They appear to be on* and the fame fpecies. Nothing is more variable than the 

 length of ar'tfi£ in grafles. J. E. Smith. 



Melica 



