

Plants around Wilmington^ JST. C 



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exactly with L. juncea. Grows abundantly on the sandy 

 beach at the mouth of Cape Fear river. L. juncea has 

 not been found there. 



(47) Orthopogon hirtellunu Calyx 3-4 valved, 



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usually 3^ the exterior shortest, with an awn 3 times as 

 long as the flower, second valve half thg length of the 

 corol, with an awn equal to the valve, interior one equal 

 to the corol and merely rnucronate ; valves all hairy. 

 Found near the Lidit House. 



(48) Pdnicum carinaium, Tor. MS. P. Walteri, Ell! 

 Stem 3 feet high, round, smooth, hollow ; Leaves rigid, 

 glabrous, ' strongly nerved, 8-10 inches long; Panicle 

 with one-sided spikes, appressed; when old expanding, 

 buds 3-4 flowered ; Cor ; valves acute, carinate, com- 

 pressed at the summit, keel ciliate at the tip ; exterior 

 valve half the length of the others, ovate, 3 nerved; the 

 other two subequal, lanceolate, 5 nerved ; second valve 

 enclosing the germ : flower; third valve forming with the 

 neutral valve a staminiferous, triandrous, floret. 



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In the form of its flowers this is closely allied to P. 

 hians. 



Hab. swamps. Flowers July, August. 



(49) Panicum scahriusculum^ Ell! 

 inches long ; Flowers ovate, acute, glabrous ; accessory 

 valve of the calyx small ; proper valves nerved, acute ; 

 neutral valve half the length of the corol, lanceolate ; 

 corol oval, smaller than the calyx ; — varies in the pube- 

 scence of stem, sheaths, and leaves. 



Hab. Rice fields ; flowers June, July. 



(50) Paspalum plicatulum. The flat valve of the 

 calyx is marked by a longitudinal and a transverse fold 

 in the form of a cross. This^ character disappears In 

 drying, and is clearly accidental, though observed in nu- 

 merous instances. » 



Leaves 6-18 



