TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 19 
igel §UlplorFhep sluntabea. 
Ulplosfhér glunlibtha. 
Enciisn.—Knee-bent Fox-tail-grafs. Float Fox- 
tail-grafs. Spiked float-grafs. Spiked water- 
grafs. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems very long, floating 
when in water, knotted, knee-bent ; lower joints 
putting forth fibres; upper ones afcending, leafy, 
branched, fmooth. Leaves fomewhat rough. 
Sheath-feale very flender, whitifh. Spike cylin- 
drical, fhort, bluntifh, many-flowered, inclining to 
purple. Calyx, valves nearly equal, very blunt. 
Awns longer than the calyx. 
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MILIUM. 
Cal. 2 valved, 1 flowered: valves nearly equal. 
Cor. very fhort. Summits pencil-fhaped. 
M. Flowers in panicles, fcattered, awnlefs. effuswm. 
It generally grows in moift fhady woods, but is 
not common. Ina wood at Tinnehinch, on the 
eftate of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, county 
of Wicklow. Mr. John Underwood. 
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