3.">8 GKASS FAMILY. 



* * Lonrj white silky down with 



Saccharum Officinarum, Tun: Si . \I:-<'ANI: : cult, far S. : rarely 

 left to flower, propagated by cuttings; stein 8- 20 high, 1'-^' thick. 2/ 



Gyndrium. arg6nteum, PAMPAS (JKASS. Tall reed-like grass, from 

 S. America, planted out tin- ornament; with a large tuft of rigid linear and 

 tapering recurved-spreading leaves, several feet in length ; the flowering stem 

 to 12 feet high, in autumn bearing an ample silvery-silky panicle. 2 



2. Sp/kelels in spikes : slamhiate and pistillate separate, 

 * In the same spike, the upper part of which is staininate, the lower pistillate, 



Tripsacum dactyloides, (JAMA (JKASS, SKSAMK GHASS. Wild in 

 moist soil from Conn. S. : proposed for fodder S. ; nutritious, but too coarse ; 

 leaves almost as large as those of Indian corn ; spikes narrow, eompo.-ed of a 

 row of joints which break apart at maturity ; the fertile cylindrical, the exter- 

 nal! v cartilaginous spikelets immersed in the rhaehis, the sterile part thinner 

 and flat, ^ 



* * In different spikes. 



Z6a Mays, MAIZE, INDIAN COUN. Stem terminated by the clustered 



slender spikes of staininate (lowers (the tuxsrl) in 2-flowercd spikclets ; the pis- 

 tillate flowers in a dense and many-rowed spike borne on a short axillary branch, 

 two flowers within each pair of glumes, but the lower one neutral, the upper pis- 

 tillate, with an extremely long style, the silk, (i) 



