Panicum viride» Green Panic Grass. 



PANICUM Lin. Gen, PI, Triandria Digynia. 



Gal. 3-valvis : valvule tertia minima* 



KaiiSyn. Gen. 27. Herb^e graminipoli^ flore imperfecto culmifEr,£. 



PANICUM viride fpica tereti, involucellis biflofis fafciculato-pilofis, feminibus riervofis. Lin. Syjl% 

 Vegetab. p. 50 i\ Sp. PL p. 83. * 



PANICUM fpica unica, flofculis feffilibus folitariis, fetis numerofis. %4/kn ffjfi-. a. 1542, 



GRAMEN paniceum fpica fimplich Baub. Pin. 8. 



GRAMEN panic! effigie fpica fimplici. Ger. emac. 1 7, 



GRAMEN paniceum fpica fimplici laevi. Rati Sy?u p. 393. Panic-Grafs, with a fingle fmdoth ear, 

 Hudfion FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 24; 



RADIX annua, fibrofa. | ROOT annual, and fibrous. 



CULMI er-e&i, pedaies et ultra, fimplices, fnbinde | STALKS upright, a foot high or more, fimple, now and 

 ramofi, quatuor aut quinque geniculis diftincti, % then branched, furnifhed with four or five 



lasves. I joints, and fmooth. 



fDLIA palmaria et ultra, lineas duas, tres, quatuorve % LEAVES about a hand's breadth or more in length, two 

 quandoque lata, acuminata, leevia, ad mar- 1 or three lines, and fometimes more, in breadth, 



gines afpera, inapricis faepe fanguinea ; folio- % pointed, fmooth, rough on the edges, in open 



fum Vagina ftriata, hevis, ad internam folio- 1 fit uations often of a blood-red colour; Sheath 



rum bafin, loco membranulae in pilos fubti-J of the leaves ftriated, fmooth, terminated at 



liffimos Ihieam dimidiam aut paulo plus longos | the inner bafe of" the leaf, inftead of a raem- 



terminatee, qui pili etiam quandoque vaginae | brane, by very fine hairs, about half a line or 



margines fupremas ipfique foliorum baii proxi- % fomewhat more in length, which fometimes alfo 



mas occupant. | occupy the edges of the fheath on its upper 



% part^and of the leaves at their bafe. 



SPJCA fimplex, teres, cylindracea, uncialis, fefqui- 1 SPIKE fimple, round, cylindrical, an inch, an inch 

 uncialis et ultra, craffitie pennae anferinae ma- % and a half or more in length, the thick- 



joris, aliquando tota fpadicea vel atro-pur-| nefs of a large goofe quill, fometimes wholly 



purea, alias ex viridi lutefcens, luteis pilis, ali-| of a reddim purple colour, at others greenifh 



quando rubris donata, denfe coagmentatis con- % yellow, furnifhed with yellowifh, and fome- 



flans fpiculis, molliufcula, veftibus liequa- 1 times reddifh hairs, compofed of fpiculae clofely 



quam adherens ; fetae feu pili plurimi, erecti, % compacted, foft to the touch, never adhering 



tortuofi, flofculis triplo longiores, ad ientemf to garments ; fetae or hairs numerous* upright,- 



aculeati, aculeis ere&is. fig. 1. 2. ■% crooked, thrice the length of the flofcules, 



I when magnified furnifhed with fmall prickles, 



^ which are upright. ^7%-. 1.2. 



CALYX : Gluma uniflora, trivalvis, valvulis duabus ? CALYX : a Glums of one flower, and three valves, two' 



oppofitis, fcqualibus, ovatis, obtufis, nervofis, | of which are oppofite, equal, ovate; obtufe, 



fig. 4. tertia minima, inferne pofita. fig. p t and ribbed, fig. 4. the third is very minute, 



I and placed below the others, fig. 3. 



COROLLA: bivalvis, valvulae ovatae, concavae, nitidag, | COROLLA compofed of two valves, which are Ovate, • 



fubsequales. fig. 5. | hollow, ihining, and nearly equal, fig. $. 



STAMINA: Filamenta tria, capillaria, breviflima, ^ STAMINA : three capillary Filaments, very fhort, a 

 corollam paulo excedentia. Anthers mi-t little longer than the corolla. Anthers very 



nima?, purpureas, fig. 6. | fmall, and purple, fig. 6. 



PISTILLUM: Germen ovatum. Styli duo, capil- f PISTILLUM : Germen ovate. Styles two* capil- 



lares. Stigmata plumofa, alba. fig. 7. | lary. Stigmata feathery and white, fig. 7. 



SEMEN unicum, fubovatum, tectum, hinc con vexum, * SEED firigle* fomewhat ovate, covered, convex, ancJ 

 obfolete nervorum^ inde planiufculum. fig. 8. | faintly ribbed on one fide^ on the other flattifh. 



I A- s. 



Ill a former part of this work we gave figures of the Panicum crufigalli and fianguinale : we here pre'fent our 

 readers with two more, being the whole of this genus growing near London. 



The viride is with us the rnofr. common of the four ; yet at a difbmce from town it appears to have few habitats. 

 Mr, Hudson particularizes Martha's Chapel near Guildford ; Bateffiea Fields is the only place wheref we find this, and 

 the others, all of which flower about the fame period, viz. Augufi and September. 



To correfpond with its name, the viride mould be always of a green colour ; but we ofteh find its foliage red* 

 and its fpikes reddifh-brown, and the verticiilatum vice verfa : we are not therefore to look for an infallible guide in 

 its colour, but the fpike will always difiinguiih it from the verticiilatum. Between fhefe two, indeed, there is a 

 more feniible difference to the touch than betwixt the Alopecurus pratenfis and Pbleum prdtenfie ; the hairs in the; 

 fpike of the viride are much longer than thofe of the verticiilatum, and though the microfcope dilcovers them to 

 be prickly, vid.fig. 1. 2. yet thele being upright difcover no manifeft roughnefs.- 



Agriculturally it may be considered rather as a weed than an ufieful grafs. 



Sparrows are remarkably fond of its- feeds 3 the whole of this- genus, when cultivated in a garden, require to be 

 protected from them. 



