ANDROPOGON, in botany, a genus of the polygamia monœcia class. This genus contains 18 species, viz. the caricofum, contortum, divaricatum, nutans, gryllus, insulare, ravenne, alopecuroides, distachyon, schoenanthus, virginicum, bicorne, hirtum, nardus, muticum, ischoenum, fasciculatum, and polydactylon, most of them natives of the Indies.
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