TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 61 
commend it except the beauty of its panicle. 
Cows, fheep and goats eat it. P. July. 
A eats paper MEDON. 
Iris. 
Luafcadhfhér medbon. 
Enciisu.— Middle Quaking-grafs.. Cow-quakes. 
Ladies-hair. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems 1 foot or more, 
upright, leafy, very fmooth. Leaves nearly up- 
right, acute, flat, fomewhat rough. Sheath long, 
ftriated, fmooth, with a very fhort blunt fheath- 
feale. Panicle, widely fpreading, many-flowered: 
little branches brownifh,  Spikets drooping, 
quaking, egg-fhaped, or nearly heart-fhaped, 
fmooth, fhining, containing 7, fometimes 9 florets. 
Calyx, valves nearly equal, hollow, blunt, fkinny 
at the edges, and fomewhat fhorter than the 
floret. Corolla, valves fimilar to the calyx; 
outer one notched. 
DACTYLIS. 
Cal. 2-valved, flatted: one valve larger, keeled. 
D. Panicle crowded, pointing one way: calyx 
4-flowered. 
| Very 
glomerata. 
