Panicum viride 
Green Panic Grass. 
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PANICUM Lin. Gen. Pl. Triandria Digynia. 
Cal. 3-valvis : valvula tertia minima. 
RaiiSyn. Gen. 27. Herba: graminifoli.® flore imperfRcto culmiferac. 
PANICUM viride fpica tereti, involucellis bifloris fafciciilato-pilofis, feminibus nervofis. Lin. Syjl. 
Vegetab. p. 502. Sp. PI. p. 83. 
PANICUM fpica unica, flofculis feflilibus folitariis, fetis numerous. Haller. Hijl. n. 1542. 
GRAMEN paniceum fpica fimplici. Bauh. Pin. 8. 
GRAMEN panici effigie fpica fimplici. Ger. emac. 1 7. 
GRAMEN paniceum fpica fimplici lasvi. Raii Syn. p. 393. Panic-Grafs, with a fingle fmooth ear* 
Hudjon FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 24. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa. | ROOT annual, and fibrous. 
CULMI eredli, pedales et ultra, fimplices, fubinde | STALKS upright, a foot high or more, fimple, now and 
ramofi, quatuor aut quinque geniculis difiindti, t then branched, furnilhed with four or five 
lawes. I joints, and fmooth. 
FOLIA palmaria et ultra, lineas duas, tres, quatuor ve $ LEAVES about a hand’s breadth or more in length, two 
quandoque lata, acuminata, laevia, ad mar- 1 
gines afpera, in apricis fiepe fanguinea ; folio- % 
rum Vagina ftriata, laevis, ad internam folio - 1 
rum bafin, loco membranulae in pilos fubti-| 
lifiimos lineam dimidiam aut paulo plus longos f 
terminatae, qui pili etiam quandoque vaginae | 
margines fupremas ipfique foliorum bafi proxi- t 
mas occupant. 
SPICA fimplex, teres, cylindracea, uncialis, fefqui- 
uncialis et ultra, craffitie penna; anferina; ma- 
joris, aliquando tota fpadicea vel atro-pur- 
purea, alias ex viridi lutefcens, luteis pilis, ali- 
quando rubris donata, denfe coagmentatis con- 
flans fpiculis, molliufcula, veftibus nequa- 
quam adhaerens ; fetae feu pili plurimi, eredli, 
tortuofi, flofculis triplo longiores, ad lentem 
aculeati, aculeis eredtis. Jig. 1 . 2. 
or three lines, and fometiines more, in breadth, 
pointed, fmooth, rough on the edges, in open 
fituations often of a blood-red colour; Sheath 
of the leaves ftriated, fmooth, terminated at 
the inner bafe of the leaf, inftead of a mem- 
brane, by very fine hairs, about half a line or 
fomewhat more in length, which fometimes alfo 
: occupy the edges of the ffieath on its upper 
part, and of the leaves at their bafe. 
SPIKE fimple, round, cylindrical, an inch, an inch 
and a half or more in length, the thick- 
nefs of a large goofe quill, fometimes wholly 
of a reddifli purple colour, at others greenilh 
yellow, furnilhed with yellowiffi, and fome- 
times reddifh hairs, compofed of fpiculas clofely 
compared, foft to the touch, never adhering 
to garments ; feta; or hairs numerous, upright* 
crooked, thrice the length of the flofcules, 
when magnified furnilhed with fmall prickles* 
which are upright, jig. 1. 2. 
CALYX : a Glume of one flower, and three valves, two 
of which are oppofite, equal, ovate, obtufe, 
and ribbed, fig. 4. the third is very minute* 
and placed below the others. Jig. 3. 
COROLLA compofed of two valves, which are ovate 
hollow, Ihining, and nearly equal. Jig. 5. 
STAMINA: three capillary Filaments, very Ihort, a 
little longer than the corolla. Anthera: very 
fmall, and purple. Jig. 6. 
PISTILLUM : Germen ovate. Styles two, capil- 
lary. Stigmata feathery and white, jig. fi. 
SEED fingle, fomewhat ovate, covered, convex, and 
faintly ribbed on one fide, on the other flattifh. 
fS- 8- 
In a former fart of this work we gave figures of the Panicum cmjgalli mi famitlmle i we here prefent our 
readers with two more, being the whole of this genus growing near London. 
The virid ‘ is " s the mdl common of the four ; yet at a diftance from town it appears to have few habitats . 
Mr. Hudson particularizes Martha s Chafe! aw Guildford-, Baterfea Fields is the only place where we find this, and 
the others, all of which flower about the fame period, viz. Augujl and September. 
To correfpond with its name, the tvW^ ffiould be always of a green colour ; but we often find its foliage red 
and its fpikes redd ifh- brown, and the vert, ciliatum vice verfa : we are not therefore to look for an infallible guide in 
its colour, but the ipike will always diftingmffi it from the verticillatum. Between thefe two, indeed there is a 
more leniible dnTerence to the touch than betwixt the Alopecurus prater, fis and Phleum pratenfe ; the hairs in the 
fpdee of tnew/i are much longer than thofe of the verticillatum, and though the microlbope difeovers them to 
be prickly, vid.fig. 1. 2. yet thele being upright difeover 110 manifeft roughnefs. 
Agriculturally it may be confidered rather as a weed than an ufeful grafs. 
Sparrows are remarkably fond of its feeds : the whole of this genus, when cultivated in a garden, rwuire to b- 
protected from them. 0 ~ 
CALYX : Gluma uniflora, trivalvis, valvulis duabus 
oppofitis ? aequalibus, ovatis, obtufis, nervofis, . : 
fig- 4. tertia minima, inferne pofita. fig. 3. 
COROLLA : bivalvis, valvulae ovatae, concava, nitida;, 
fubasquales. fig. 5. 
STAMINA : Filamenta tria, capillaria, breviffima, 
corollam paulo excedentia. Antheraj mi- 
nima;, purpurea;. Jig. 6. 
PISTILLUM : Germen ovatum. Styli duo, capil- 
lares. Stigmata plumofa, alba. jig. 7. 
SEMEN unicum, fubovatum, tedium, hinc convexum, 
obfolete nervofum, inde planiufculum. Jig. 8. 
