tHiandria, digynia. 
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A beautiful variety with white, green and blue striped leaves, 
is cultivated in the gardens, and known by the names Ladies 
traces ; ribbon-grass, &c. On Mr. Pratt’s grounds, at Lemon- 
hill, it is abundant, but I have never seen more than a slight 
approximation to these stripes, in the wild plant. Perennial. 
July, August. 
2. C. panicle oblong, calices one-flowered, lanceolate, cinnoidey. 
Carina rough pubescent, corolla awned at the 
back. 
Arundo cinnoides, Muhl. 
A. canadensis, Mich, and Pursh. 
A. confinis, Willd. enum. 
Reed-like Calamagrosits. 
In bogs and at river sides. From three to four feet high. 
Rather scarce. Near the spot I have particularised as the 
habitat of Iris prismatica. Perennial. August. 
42. Anthoxanthum, Gen. pi. 58. f Graminea * J 
Calix 2-valved, 1-flowered. Corolla 2-valved ; 
valves unequal, acuminate, awned from near 
the base. Stamina 2. Nutt. 
1. A. spike oblong, ovate ; flowers on short pedun- odovatum^ 
cles, longer than awn. Sp. pi. 
Icon. FI. Dan. 666. Engl. bot. 647. 
Sweet-scented Vernal-grass. Sweet Anthox- 
It is the fine odour of this grass, which gives to hay, its sweet 
scent. Naturalized. In meadows and grass-plots, common. 
Perennial. May. 
43. Crypsis, Lamarck. 
Calix 2-valved, oblong, 1-flowered. Corolla 
2-valved, longer than the calix. Stamina 2 
or 3. (Spike surrounded at the base by the 
sheath of the leaf ; or the flowers collected 
into a leafy capitulum.) Nutt, 
