40 TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



anthers white. Fist. 2, white, plumose. Necta- 

 ry white 2-leaved gibbous. Seed oblong accu- 

 minate transparent. Muhl, 

 Dilepyrum aristosum, Mich. 



Erect Muhlenbergia. 



In the woods of Jersey, near Haddonfield and Woodbury, 

 rare. Perennial. June 



37. Trichodium, Mich, fl.am. 1. p. 41. ( Graminex . ) 



Calix 2-valved, valves equal acute, keel some- 

 what hispid. Corolla shorter 1-valved, 

 awnless. Stigmata nearly sessile, a little 

 hispid. MuhL Desc. Ub. Gr. 



lajBflomm. j t t. culm erect ; leaves and sheath scabrous ; pa- 

 nicle diffused, with the branches trichotomous j 

 flowers fasciculate, terminal. Elliot, 



Cornucopia hyemalis, Walt. fl. car. 73. 



Agrostis scabra, Willd. sp. pi. 1. p. 370. ? 



Agrostis laxa, Schreb. gram. 

 Icon. Mich. fl. Amer. 1. 1. 8. 



Loose-Jlowered Hair-grass* 



A very beautiful and delicate grass . In dry fields and grassy 

 places, common. Perennial. May. 



scabrum. 2. T. culm smooth a span or half- foot high, genicu- 

 late at the base, branched ; the branches erect. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, striate, scabrous on the 

 margin, flat. Ligula white bifid acute. Sheath 

 striate smooth. Panicle diffuse very much 

 branched. Branches of the panicle verticillate, 

 divaricate, pedicels near the calix thick, scabrous, 

 flexuose. Calix 2-valved, valves unequal 1 -flow- 

 ered larger than the corolla. Corolla 1-valved, 

 white awnless smooth, rarely awned. Stam, 3, 

 anthers white Fist. 2, white, stigmas hispid. 

 Seed acuminate deciduous. Muhl. 



