TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 51 



1* A. culm small cespitose. Leaves linear setaceous, pntcox. 

 Sheath long smooth. Ligula while birid. Pani- 

 cle narrow ; flowerets awned on the back. JJuhl. 

 Icon. Fl. Dan. 383. 



Early flowering Hair-grass, 



From two to four inches high, seldom exceeding a span. 

 In Jerse\ on land} elevations not uncommon. Near Camden 

 and Woodbury frequent. Perennial. May. 



J. A. panicle expanding, trichotomous ; peduncles nexuou. 

 flexuous ; awn geniculate ; leaves setaceous ; 

 culm nearly naked. Sp. pU 



Icon. Eng. Bot. 1519. Fl. Dan. 157. 



Flexuose Hair-grass. 



A very beautiful grass, about twelve or fourteen inches 

 high, shining", when in flower, with a purple and pearly hue. 

 On the shaded banks of Cooper's creek, in a right line from 

 Arch street ferry. Perennial. June. 



3. A. leaves flat ; panicle contracted ; flowers obtu$»ta, 

 smooth, obtuse ; the interior valve of the calix ob- Mich * 

 liquely truncate. Elliot. 



A. truncata, Muhl. 



Holcus stria:us, L. ? 



Obtuse flowered Hair-grass. 



From fourteen inches to two feet high. Leaves long. In 

 dry places on this and the Jersey side of the Delaware fre- 

 quent. Perennial. June. 



53. Holcus, Gen. pi. 1565. ( Grairunex.) 



Calix 2-flowered, 2-valved (opakc and nervose). 

 Corolla smaller, 2-valved, the exterior valve 

 awned. Xectary linear, 2-parted. Stigma 

 nearly sessile. Xutt. 



1. II . Iraves lanceolate soft, woolly. Sheath woolly. humm. 

 Ligula white serrated. Panicle narrow. Branch- 



