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TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
amiua* 
compressa. 
es solitary and in threes, hairy and flexuous. Calix 
glumes 2'Valved pallid, 2 flowered, the hermaph- 
rodite flower sessile, the male pedicellated, valves 
ciliated three nerved dotted. Cor, hermaphrodite 
2-valved glabrous awnless. Stam. 3. Pist. 2, 
feathery. Cor-, male 2-valved aristated. MuhU 
White- Timothy. Salem grass- 
About twelve inches high. Whole plant soft and woolly,, 
with the panicle often purple. Grows in moist meadows in 
Jersey, abundantly \ the Pennsylvania side of the river more 
rare. It makes good fodder. Perennial, June. 
54. PoA, Gen. pi. 114. f Graminece • J 
Calix 2-valved, many-flowered. Spikelets 
more or less ovate, without awns, valves 
somewhat acute, discoloured, with scariose 
margins. Nutt. 
1. P. panicle diffuse; branches expanding at right 
angles; spikelets obtuse, 5-flowered ; stem oblique 
compressed. Sp. PI, 
Icon. Host. gram. 2. t. 64. Lears, fi. hab. t. 6. f. 1. 
(Pursh.) 
Annual Meadow-grass, 
One of the commonest grasses every where ; in grass plots 
abundant. Annual. Flowers from April till autumn. 
2. P. culm a foot high compressed, often oblique. 
Leaves linear, carinated, nerved, smooth, bluish. 
Ligula white, short ovate acute emarginate. 
Sheath smooth. Panicle coarctate nearly erect, 
glabrous. Branches of the panicle short in pairs ; 
spikes terete, sessile, jointed at base. Calix 2- 
valved, 3 — 8 flowered. Cor. 2-valved, margin 
purplish, smooth and sub-villous at the base* 
Muhl. 
Icon. Eng. Bot. 365. 
