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TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
tenuis, 
Elliot, 
obtusa, 
Muhl. 
Pliiladelphi- 
ca. 
11. P. panicle branching, expanding, capillary; 
spikes 3-flowered, glabrous, on long peduncles ; 
leaves linear, very long. Elliot* 
Slender Meadow-grass* 
' An exceedingly delicate and slender plant, well described 
by Mr. Elliot. About a foot high ; not unfrequently of lower 
stature. In the shaded low woods of Jersey, common ; this 
side of the river in similar places, less frequent. Perennial I 
August. 
12. P. culm erect, smooth, jointed, striate. Leaves 
linear-lanceolaie scabrous on the margin, nerved. 
Ligula white, bifid, retuse. Panicle crowded 
and narrow. Branches of the panicle 2-3, con- 
ferted. CaL 2-valved, less than the corolla, 5-7- 
flowered with valves white at the apex obtuse 
or acute. Cor* 2'Valved, exterior valve ovate ob- 
tuse 5«nerved smooth. Siam, often 2. Seed ob- 
long and obovate. Muhl* 
Not the Poa obtusa of Nuttall. Perhaps Briza vi- 
rens, Walt. ? but certainly not of L. 
Blunt'fiowered Meadow-grass* 
In the same spongy swamp, near Kaighn’s point, already 
particularly mentioned. Perennial. September. 
13. P. panicle elongated, almost simply branched 
at the base, branches erect ; spikelets compressed, 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, upon very short peduncles, 
8 to 15-flowered ; valves of the calix acute, near- 
ly the length of the 3-nerved Sowers, inner valve 
with one nerve, the outer with three ; culm rather 
weak and compressed ? leaves fiat and smooth, 
stipula obsolete, softly bearded. 
Culm simple, about 18 inches high ; leaves few, rather long, 
flat, and smooth, a little asperate on the margin ; panicle 
about 4 or 5 inches long, simply branched near the base, run- 
ning out almost into a raceme above ; flosculi closely imbrica- 
ted, compressed ; outer valve 3 -nerved, truncate at the point ; 
stamina 3, short \ styles slender, simply pennate. 
