Panicum. Vhgana, P A N I c E A E. 253 



cellis brevissimis: Spicnlis minimis, lanceoIalo-ovaHbiis, obtusiusculis, gla- 

 bris; Gluma inrpiiure flosciilis plus duplo breviori, 1 — o-, superiore 3 — 5- 

 nervi; Hermaphrodilo obtu.siusrulo, apice subbarbulato, laevi; Foliis lan- 

 ceolato-linearibus (vel linearibus lantum), glabris, 

 Pamcum laxum. 1». et S. II. p. ^.'JS. — P. lenniculmum Meyer. Schult. Mant. 2. 

 p. 247. N. ab Es. Agr. bras. p. 18G. Trin. ic. gr, XVIII. tab. 215. — 

 P. agroslidifonne liadd. — P. diandrum Kth. rev. gr. tab. 110. Agr. 

 syn. p. 96. 



V. spp. Ind. occ. Bras. 

 Culmus 1 — 3-pedaIis, nunc tenuis et debilis, nunc inferne crassitie pennae 

 gallinaceae et firmus, pl. min. compressus, simplex vel ramosus. Vaginae 

 glabrae I. superne cillatae. Folia plana I. compressa, lineas 1 — 3 lata, 1 — ses- 

 qul-palmaria. Racemi i — 3-poIIicares, solitaril, tenues, inferiores remoti, 

 superiores conferti,ad axin palmarem — spithamaeum. Racemuli 2 — '5-11- 

 neales. Flosc. neul. 2-vaIvis. 

 Obs. A pnoii, ciijus vailelali epili valde simile, dignoscitur radiis, ob radiolos plerumque eviden- 

 tlores miuus linearibus, magis sparsis, longiorbus; foliis angustlorlb is. 



Panicum amplexicaule Rudge. Radils racemlformibus simpllciusculis, in jubam 

 thyrsodem densissimam angustamque coarctatis ; Pedlcellis brevisslmls; Spl- 

 culis biiinealibus, lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, glabris; Glumis 3-nervI- 

 bus: inferiore flosculis f brevlori; Hermaphrodito acumlnato , laevi; FoIIis 

 (amplexlcaulibus) lato- linearl-lanceolalls, glabrls. 



Panicum amplexicaule. R. et S. II. p. 456. Trin. Ic. gr. XVIIl. tab. 205. — 

 P. myuros Kih. Agr. syii. p. 86. (an Rich. et LaM., qulbus spiculae mi- 

 nimae dlcuntur?) 



jigroslis myuros LaM. — y/. monoslachya Poir. 



Hymenachne myuros PB. R. et S. II. p. 468. N. ab Es. Agr. bras. p. 215. 

 Y. spp. Ind. occ. Bras. 



