70 TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



63. A run do, Gen. pi. 124. (Gratnimoc.) 



Calix 2-valved, many-flowered. Corolla 

 smooth, surrounded at the base by a long 

 villous wool. JVutt. 



einnoides. 1. A. culm terete glabrous, erect, simple, 3 feet high. 

 Leaves lanceolate, acuminate nerved, above hairy, 

 smooth below. Sheaths nerved, backwardly pu- 

 bescent Panicle erect narrow green, branches in 

 threes scabrous. Cal. glume 2-valved 1 -flower- 

 ed, valves sub-equal, acuminate, purplish, carinate 

 at the apex. Cor. less than the cahx 2-valved, 

 purplish at the apex, carinate. MuhL 



A. Canadensis, Mich. 



A. confinis, VVilld. 



Cinna-like Reed, 



A very handsome large grass, with a parti-coloured long, 

 heavy dense panicle. Near where Iris prismatica grows, Jer- 

 sey. Rare. Perennial. August. 



64. Elusine, Gsert. Lamark. fGraminea. J 



Spikes digitate. — Flowers awnless, disposed 

 on one side of the rachis (or receptacle.) 

 Calix carinate, many-flowered, dorsal valve 

 larger, 5 to 9- nerved. Corolla 2-valved, 

 awnless. (Flowers all hermaphrodite.) JVutt* 



indica. I.E. culm erect and procumbent,compressed, jointed. 

 Leaves alternate, lanceolate nerved hairy. Ligu- 

 la white, short sub- serrate. Sheath striate smooth, 

 hairy at the mouth. Spikes terminal 2 — 4, rare- 

 ly solitary, fiosculi secund. Cal. 2-valved, 2 — 6- 

 flowered, valves ovate awnless, something smaller 

 than the corolla. Cor, 2-valved compressed awn- 

 less. MuhL 

 Cynosurus Indicus, L- 



