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£0 Dr. SwARTz's Botanical ITiJlory Ehrharia digyna, foliis planis, coroUis lasvibus obtufis coftatis. Ibid. p. 66.

Culmus 3 — 4-peclalis, ereftns, glaber ; inferne crafTitie pennas anferina:, fubfolidus, rigidus, ramofifTimus, feu ad articulos nodofus, ubique dichotome fubdivifus, ramis teretibus fubgeniculatis ftriatis glabris vaginalis.

Folia inferiora vaginantia concava lanceolata, s. potius vaginae inferioies bipollicares, culmum ramofque bafi cingentes^ ufque ad aiticulum apertae, ftriatas, glabras, virides.

Superiora, s. ramoruni tjerminalLum,.linearia, apice eredlo con- voluta, bafi longiffime et ar6te vaginantia.

Paniculae terminales, erefla:, coarftatac, fimplices, rarius ra- raofa?» bi- tri-poUicai-es.

Pedunculi 2 — 4 lin. longi, 2 — 3, conferti, inxquales, uniflori.

Flores oblongo-lanceolati, obtufi, credli^ albefcentes, glabriusculi.

Calycis vahuke fubxquales, ovato-Ianceolata:, acutas, con- cavo-carinat3E, nutic:E, glaberrimse, nitidae.

Gluma coroll. vix longior calycis, intra calycem pedicellata.

Exterioris valvulae fubasquales, carinatas, lanceolatas fubretufe, lineis elevatis notats: (coftatas Thunb.) oculo armato fca- bris, carinaque ciliata ; albid?e, apice extimo plerumque fufcas ; exterior fafciculo pilorum ad bafin dorfo infei to j Interior bafi utroque latere valdc excifa, fafciculis pilorum duobus,. fquamulifque femilunaribus mlnutiflimis albidis lateralibus adpreffis. (Forte rudimenta flofculorum.)

interioris valvulae ina^quales, glabcrrimse, carinatae ; exterior gluma; exteriori firaillima, fed tota carinaque glabra ; in-

terior