POACEAE 4T 
H. halepensis L. pape 0.5—1.5 m. tall, arising from a stout creeping dde 
stock: panicle oblong or pyramidal, ud cm. long, the branches sometime 
finally drooping: sessile spikelet 4.5—5.5 
me plump, more or n "un "the YA) A LU 
n, if present, 1— E 5 ¢ ong, deciduous. We Woe 
halepens A Andropogon 
halepensis Brot 1 Jon -GRA 
NSON-GRASS. EVER- 
GREEN-MILLET. EGYPTIAN-MILLET. )—Fields 
and waste-places, various en Fla. to 
Tex., Calif., Kans., and Mas Nat. 2 
Afr.—(W. L., Mex., C. A., 8. rss —Som 
times a trou blesome weed. This and the 
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cyanic acid in sufficient abundance re poison 
dir nue 
2. H. Sorghum L. Annual with stouter 
stems and broader leaf-blades. The culti- 
vated sorghum or sorgo sometimes persists in fields and waste- -places, locally 
throughout our range. Nat. of E. L—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.)—This grass 
has been cultivated from pd times in many varieties: = jid be < 
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14. SORGHASTRUM Nash. Erect rather tall perennials, with narrow flat 
leaf-blades and narrow terminal panicles. Spikelets in pairs, one d terete, 
sessile and fertile, the other wanting, only the ek pedicel pre : glumes 
coriaceous, brown or yellowish, hirsute: sterile and fertile lemmas as the 
latter bearing a well-developed bent and twisted awn: racemes reduced to 1 to 
" few joints.—About 12 species, natives of tropieal and temperate regions.— 
INDIAN-GRASSES. INDIAN-REEDS 
Awn usually 15 mm. or less long, once bent: spikelets yellowish: panicle rather 
ense. 1. S. nutans. 
Awn 20 to 30 mm. long, twice bent, twisted below the second bend. 
Spikelets d brown, the D eee villous only 
at the very tip: pa anicle loose, not u eral. 2. S. Elliottii. 
Spikelets "vellovish- -brown, the upper peii of the ultimate 
branchlets with oe ascending hairs: panicles rather dense, . 
distinctly unilater 3. S. secundum. 
S. nutans (L.) Nash. Stem 1-2.5 m. tall: 
Pene oe yellowish or bronze, 20-50 em. 
lon , rather compact, the branchlets not flex- 
e Ln 1 - 
: ceum 
Chapm. S. nutans A. Gray ]— (Woop-GRASS.) 
—Dry soil, various provinces, Fla. to Tex 
Ariz., N. D., and Me.—(Menz.) 
2. S. Elliottii eru Nash. Stem 1-1.5 
m. tall: panicle 15-30 em. long, loose, the 
agn flexuous or drooping: spikelets 
[S. Linnaeanum  Nash]— 
soil, woods, slopes, and bluffs, Coastal Plain 
and rarely adj. provinces, Fla. to E 
Tenn., and Md. 
