92 POACEAE 
lower spreading branches, early deciduovs, the pistillate erect on the appressed 
upper branches, tardily deciduous. boss el ets 1-flowered; first glume of stami- 
nate spikelet wanting, the second ved, me eibeanaecous, linear-acuminate or 
awn-pointed; lemma about as inm as the glume, 3-nerved; palea wanting; 
stamens 6: pistillate spikelet terete, € 
at maturity; glumes wanting: lemma char- 
taceous, 3-nerved, tapering into a long ne 
der awn; palea 2-nerved, closely clasped by 
the lemma. Grain cylindric, as much as 
em. long.—Three species, one in Asia, two 
in North America. 
1 
much as 3 m. tall: leaf-blades much a 
1 m. long and 4 cm. wide: panicle 20-30 em 
long.— (INDIAN RICE. WILD-RICE.)—Marshes, 
n or braekish water, various provinces, 
Fla. to Tex., N. D., and "Vt. 
45. PHARUS L. Monoccious perennials, with ample panicles and large 
oblique long-petiolate feather-veined leaf-blades with numerous e the 
petioles twisted, reversing the leaf. Spikelets in pairs on the tiff fragile 
branches of the panicle; pistillate, subsessile; the staminate Fi smaller, 
pedicellate. Glumes in the staminate spikelets membranous, somewhat broad- 
ened, the first a little pelis the second 
longer than the lemma, enelos a flower 
but no palea: in the pistillate po the 
glumes membranous, d -nerved, subequal, 
the lemma longer than the glumes, narrow, 
at length du e clothed at least 
toward the beaked apex, with uncinate hairs, 
Five species, natives of tropical America. 
1. P. parvifolius Nash. A iQ Te and 
rooting at"base, 50—100 e ees leaf-blades S eu pod acuminate, 
narrowed into a d 1-3 c m. long, the middle s 12-15 long, about 
4 em. wide: spikelets 8-10 mm. long: fruit “pubescent “ail over, eden twice as 
long as the glumes.—Rocky hammo cks, N pen W. I., Mex 
P. latifolius, a tropical American species, eat y to the flora of 
Florida, does not occur in our range. 
46. PHALARIS L. Erect annuals or perennials, with flat blades. Spike- 
lets laterally compressed, with one terminal perfect floret and 2 lateral sterile 
emmas, articulate above the glumes, arranged in usually dense’ spike-like 
panicles; glumes equal, boat-shaped, often winged on a ne keel; sterile lemmas 
reduced to 2 small scales ird only one): fertile lemma coriaceous, shorter 
than the glumes, enclosing the faintly 2-nerved palea.—Twenty species, natives 
of temperate Europe and i ento 
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