TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
5T 
1. A. culm small cespitose. Leaves linear setaceous. prsecox. 
Sheath long smooth* Ligula white bifid. Pani- 
cle narrow ; flowerets awned on the back. MuhL 
Icon. FI. Dan. 383. 
Early Jiowering Hair-grass* 
From two to four inches high, seldom exceeding a span. 
In J irsey on sandy elevations not uncommon . Near Camden 
and Woodbury frequent. Perennial. May. 
2. A. panicle expanding, trichotornous ; peduncles flexuosa, 
flcxuous ; awn geniculate j leaves setaceous j 
culm nearly naked. Sp, pL 
Icon. Eng. Bot. 1519. FI. 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 obtusata, 
smooth, obtuse ; the interior valve of the calix ob- 
liquely truncate. Elliot* 
A. truncata, Muhl. 
Holcus striatus, 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. p Gramineae.J 
2-flowe^ed, 2-valved (opake and nervose). 
Corolla smaller, 2-valved, the exterior valve 
awned. Nectary linear, 2-parted. Stigma 
nearly sessile. Nutt. 
1. H. leaves lanceolate soft, woolly. Sheath woolly, lanatus. 
Ligula white serrated. Panicle narrow. Branch- 
