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TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA 



OPLISMENUS. 



Gramina. Lin, — Gramino^ Juss- Brown 



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Jitrtelhs. O. spica composita spiculis appressis 



alternis, calycibus geminis. valvulis oin- 

 nibus aristatis, extima longissima. 



Roan. Sf/sL 2. p. 481. 



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Panicum hirtellum. WilkL Sjk PL 1. jy. 



340. IIorL Kew. 1. p. 142. 



Orthopogon liirtellus. Spreng. S^^sL 1. 



p. 306. 

 Panicum majus panicula rariori. Br. 133. 



Gramen panicum maximum. >S'/. l.p, 106. 

 Scotch Grass.''' Long. 2. />. 761. Miller. 



Pagistcr Grass. 



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indica, and again of Mcg-astachya ciliariSj identical with Poa ci- 

 liaris. — Willd. An example, this, of the continuance of error by 

 the copying" of synonyms. The Grarnen pralense of Sloanc is 

 certainly an Agrostis, and is recognized as such by Swarlz. 



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* Sloane informs us, that this grass takes its familiar name 

 ^' from that part of Barbados called Scotland/' from which place 

 it was transported into Jamaica, The Scotch grass of Jamaica 

 is different from the grass bearing that name \n Barbados. If 

 the references above given on the authority of Willdonow, Roe^ 

 iner. Swart/., Martyn, &c. to Sloanc and Browne be correct, the 

 Scotch grass of Jamaica is ideotical with the Pagistcr grass of 

 Barbados. 



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