TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA, 
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Agrostris scabra. Willd. 
This beautiful grass is very common on the margins of, and 
roads through woods, and flowers two months later than the 
preceding. All the specimens I have collected, are taller than 
described by Dr. Muhlenberg. Perennial. July to October* 
38. Leersia, Gen. pi. 105. f Gramineae • J 
Calix 0. Corolla 2.valved, closed: valves 
compressed, boat-shaped, without awns. 
(Stamens 1, 2, 3, and 6.) Nutt. 
1. L. panicle loose, with scattered branches, small ; Virgiaicai 
flowers appressed ; monandrous, scabrous j the 
keel of the glumes sparingly ciliate. Elliots 
L. oryzoides, Swartz. 20. 
Virginian Rice-grass. White-grass, 
About two or three feet high, very slender. On borders of 
swampy woods and near shaded rivulets, in Jersey ; also in the 
woods back of the Blue-bell Inn, Darby-road. Rare. Peren- 
nial . August . 
2. L. culm 5 feet high jointed very scabrous, joints oryzoides^ 
pubescent. Leaves lanceolate nerved ciliated 
scabrous. Ligula short retuse. Sheath striated, 
Carina hispid backward. Panicle diffuse ; branch- 
es of the panicle spreading, the lower ones in 
fours, the rest in pairs and solitary, inflated at the 
base, flexuose. Pedicels adpressed. Cor. glume 
bivalved compressed. Stam, 2 and 3 white. 
Fist. 2. 
Cut-grass. Sickle-grass* 
On the margins of ditches, field-drains, and rivulets, in Jer-* 
sey and on this side of the Delaware. Not very common* 
Perennial. August. 
