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cres sessile several of the bristles more than twice as long as the single spikelet; 
lower empty glume small (one-sixth as long as spikelet), second and third equaling 
the perfect flower, the latter linear-lanceolate.—Lastero Bay, Ilorida (4. P. Garber, 
1878). 
P. typhoideum Rich. (CatT-TaIL MILLET.) (Penicillaria Willd.) This species is 
frequently cultivated in the South for fodder, 
STENOTAPHRUM Trin. 
Spikelets 2-flowered, the terminal one perfect and fertile, the lower 
one male or imperfect, the lowest empty glume short and obtuse, the 
second the largest, the two flowering glumes rather smaller, palets of 
both flowers similar in texture. The spikelets embedded, singly or 
two or three together, in alternate excavations of the broad flattened 
rhachis of a spike-like panicle. 
1. S. Americanum Schrank. (Chapm. FI.S. States, p.579.) (Rottboellia dimidiata 
Ell.) Culms flattened, erect, 6 to 12 inches high, from creeping root-stocks, smooth ; 
leaves 2 to 6 inches long, obtuse, flat or folded, contracted at the base; spikes 
2 to 5 inches long, lateral and terminal, pedunculate; fertile spike sessile ; the 
upper glume 7-nerved, three times as long as the lower one; palet of the sterile flower 
coriaceous, like that of the perfect one. Along the coast in most tropical countries. 
South Carolina to Florida and west to Texas. 
HYDROCHLOA Beauv. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in small, simple, moncecious spikes (4 to 1 inch 
long), mostly included in the sheaths of the upper leaves, 3 to 5 male 
spikelets in the terminal spikes, and a few female spikelets in the axil- 
lary spikes; stamens 6. Stigmas elongated. 
1. Hydrochloa Caroliniensis Beauv. (Chapm. Fl. 8. States, p. 549.) Spikelets 
1-flowered, consisting of two nearly equal hyaline glumes, or one glume and a palet, 
as they are sometimes considered; leaves short, oblong-linear.—North Carolina to 
Florida and Mississippi. 
LUZIOLA Juss. 
Flowers moncecious, 1n separate spreading panicles, the staminate 
spikelets larger than the fertile ones. Spikelets 1-flowered, awnless, the 
ale spikelets terminal on each branch. Stamens 5 to 11, anthers linear. 
Styles 2, short; flowering glume with many prominent nerves. Creep- 
ing, narrow-leaved aquatic or marsh grasses. 
1. Luziola Alabamensis Chapm. FI. 8. States, p. 584. Culms 4 to 6 inches high, 
simple, rooting at the lower joints; leaves few, the lower much exceeding the culm, 
the elongated purple sheath inclosing the base of the panicle, the latter few tlow- 
cred, 1 to 3 inches long, the male and female on separate culms; glume and palet of 
male spikelets lanceolate, 7-nerved; those of the pistillate spikelets ovate-lanceo- 
late, 11- to 13-nerved ; grain smooth.—Brooklyn, Ala., also Mobile, Ala, (Dr. Mokr). 
2. L. Peruviana Juss. (Persoon’s Synopsis, u. p. 575). Culms creeping and root- 
ing at the lower joints; flowering culms erect, 3 to 10 inches high; radical leaves 
often 12 inches long, narrow; male flowers much larger than the female ones, white ; 
female panicles spreading, 1 to 2 inches long. In low ditches and low grassy lands,— 
Louisiana (4. B. Langlois). Mr. Langlois says it is attractive all summer by its fine 
white male spikes. 
