TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Panicum. 
143 
E. Bot. 402. E.)— FI. Dan. 259— H. Ox. viii. 6. 41— Park. 1273. 2— C. B. 
Th. 37 and 92— Leers 7. 3— Mont. 59. 
(Stems two to five feet high, erect, strong, reedy, smooth, and leafy, with 
several joints. Leaves spear-shaped, striated, pointed, smooth, more or 
less glaucous, with long, ribbed, scarcely swelling sheaths. Stipules 
short, bluntish. Calyx glumes equal, keeled, ribbed. Inner corolla 
shorter than the calyx, downy ; at length cartilaginous, and enfolding 
the seed; outer of two very minute, linear, gibbous, hard valves, each 
bearing a tuft of hair exceeding their own length. Schrader rightly 
observes that the hardened permanent corolla proves this a Phalaris , and 
that what have been taken for mere tufts of hair (whence referred to 
Arundo'), are really outer petals. These parts are more fully represented 
in E. Bot. t. 2160, fig. 2. E.) Stem and leaves smooth, the latter half an 
inch or more in breadth. Panicle five to eight inches long, one to two 
in breadth, stiff and strong; varying in colour from almost white to pale 
green in the shade, and in the sun to rich shades of purple and yellow, 
with large dark red anthers. 
(Reed Canary Grass. Calamagrostis variegata. With. Ed. 4. Arundo 
colorata . FI. Brit. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. P. arundinacea. Linn. Sm. 
Eng. FI. Hook. Purt. E.) Banks of rivers and ponds, not uncommon. 
P. July. 
Var. 2. Leaves glaucous green. R. Syn. p. 400. n. 1. 
Near Lanperis. (By the sides of Llynnian Llanfihangel, Anglesey. Welsh 
Bot. E.) 
Var. 3. Leaves striped. 
This beautiful variety is often cultivated in gardens under the name of 
Painted Lady-grass, or Ribbon-grass. The stripes are generally green 
and white, but sometimes have a purplish cast. It is figured in Ger. 
Em. 26. 2. H. Ox. viii. 6. 43. Ger. 24. J. B. ii. 476. 2. It has not 
been found wild with us; (unless, as Mr. Relhan has announced, near 
Cambridge. E.)* 
PAN'ICUM.f Cal. two-valved, two-flowered ; one floret per¬ 
fect, the other barren or neutral. ( Seed enveloped in 
the persistent blossom. E.) 
P. verticilla'tum. Spike cylindrical, (with whorled branches. E.) 
rough; partial involucrums with two bristles and one floret. 
Dicks. II. S. — Curt. —( E. Bot. 874. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 4. 11— Ger. 14— C. B. 
Th. 139 —Park. 1177. 2— J. B. ii. 469. 1 —Ger. Em. 15. 1. 
Greatly resembling P. viride , but the bunches of the spike longer, three or 
four together, pointing downwards on one side. Flowers green. Pistils 
purple. One or two rough bristles to each flower, and longer than the 
flower. Little fruit-stalks, after the falling off of the flowers, terminated 
by a truncated, hollow, white cup. Spike-stalk cloven, with three or 
four angles. Straws smooth, spreading, two feet high. Leaves naked. 
Linn. Spike two and a half to four inches long, and near half an inch 
* (Mr. Hallet, of Axminster, finds this variety affords excellent food for cattle. It 
produces an earlier crop than most other grasses, and may he cut three or four times 
during the summer. Month. Mag. v. 21. p. 343. Mr. Sinclair considers it suitable 
to tenacious clayey soils* but prefers the Festuca elatior. E.) 
f (The diminutive of yams, bread j more than one species proving farinaceous. E.) 
