GLUMALS. 
30 GRASSES: 
ANATHERUM. 
bearing hairs. 
1. A. muricatum Palisot.—(Vetiver or Vetivert.) Fig. 57. 
Erect; leaves in 2 rows, long, narrow, stiff; panicle whorled, x 
with simple spreading branches; both hermaphrodite and / 
male florets awnless. VY, 
Habitat. East Indies. \ 
Quality. Rhizome has a strong penetrating agreeable odour. , fy 
Uses. Like those of Andropogon Schcenanthus, \¢ 
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Like Andropogon, but the glumes are covered. with asperities 
Male a terminal panicle; 
spikelets 2-flowered, with — | 
a pair of nearly equal 
glumes, Fe- «ff 
male a lateral \ 
spike, envel- 
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spathes ;spike- 
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ed; the upper 
floret 2, with 2 or 3 palex ; the lower 
floret neuter, with only 2 paler. 
Glumes membranous, very broa 
Grains roundish, compressed, nake 
in perpendicular rows. re 
1. Z. Mays Linneus.—(Maze. Int 
Corn.) Fig. 58. 
A coarse, upright, broad-leayed annual 
palex shorter than the ripe grain. 
Habitat. North of Mexico, or the south 
districts of the Rocky Mountains, 
to the botanists of the United States. — 
Quality. Grain very nutritious. ee 
Uses, Employed largely as food ; but is 
to cause diarrhcea, 
Oryza. Linneeus. 
A panicle. Spikelets 1-flowered. 
2, small, unequal, awnless, Palee - 
nearly equal, cartilaginous, ribbe 
the lower with or without an 3 
Stamens 6 ! of 
There are numerous varieties of this 
common tropical grain, as there 
Europe of Wheat, Barley, Oats, 
the ear of Zea Mays. 
. __ Fig. 57. —Portion of the inflorescence of Anatherum muricatum ; a, a spikelet magnified ; 58. 
