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or hanging (fometimes ereft), fix or feven inches in 

 length, and about nine in circumference. Its times 

 of flowering and reaping are the lame with the laft. 



The Holcm cermms, which is the third fpecies de- 

 fcribed by Sign. Arduin (^agg. d'l Padou :) does not 

 appear to differ from this, except as a variety : the 

 credl or recurved pohtion of the panicle, depending on 

 its fize and weight, compared with the ftrcngth of the 

 ftalk. 



But it is fiibjeA to another variety, ftill more re- 

 markable. The hermaphrodite calyx is fometimes 

 biflorous, and ripens two feeds ; fometimes uniflorous, 

 producing only one. I have found, mixed in the fame 

 field, plants with erecl:, lax panicles, and others more 

 compadl and nodding. The former had, mofl fre- 

 quently, one-flowered calyces, and the latter two- 

 flowered. But, in fome inftances, the one-flowered 

 and two-flowered were found on the fame head, and 

 even in the fame branch of the panicle, The feeds in 

 the lirft cafe are round, in the fecond hemifpherical, 

 one lide of each being flattened by their mutual contact. 



To afcertain the matter more accurately, I fent feeds 

 of both kinds to Doctor Roxburgh, who fowed them 

 in the botanical garden, at a diflance frora one another. 

 The plants came up with one and two-flowered calyces 

 indifcriminately, and flowers of both kinds wer^ even 

 mixed in the fame panicle. 



8. Moong ; P/itifeoIus Mtmgo. The fpecific dif- 

 ference between this and the Oord (P. Max) is very 

 difficult to eftablilh, yet its conftancy forbids us to 

 confider them as mere varieties. 



1 . The flalks of the Oord are hifpid in a leffer de- 

 gree than thofe of the Moong, 



2. The 



