110 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
; Cyile joloacad. 
TRIsH. 
Cuile ioldathach. 
Encuisu.—Canary Reed-gra/s. The variegated 
kinds are known by the names of Ribband-gra/s. 
Painted Lady grafs. Ladies Traces, ce. 
Ob. Roots creeping, matted. Stems from 3 
to 5 feet, upright, cylindrical, leafy, fmooth, 
many-knotted. Leaves {preading, lance-fhaped, 
fomewhat acute, even on each fide and on the 
edges. Sheath nerved, fwoln, fmooth, with a 
fhort and fomewhat blunt fheath-feale. Panicle 
upright, branched, dividing in little lobe-like 
clufters: little branches angulated, rough. Calyx, 
valves unequal, flatted, keeled, three-nerved, 
nearly acute, rough on the keel, and con- 
taining one floret. Corvila, valves equal, hairy 
on the outfide: outer valve broadeft and en- 
clofing the inner. 
arevaria. A, Calyx one-flowered, longer than the co- 
rolla: panicle fpike-like: flowers upright, 
awnlefs: leaves, edges rolled inwards, pointed 
thorn-like at the end. 
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