Fig. 170: Setaria verticillata: a, spikelet, showing short first glumes and the single 

 downwardly barbed bristles on branchlets, X 16; b, floret, showing lemma, X 16; c, 

 auricled leaf sheath and ciliate ligule, X 4; d, panicle, X if,; e, floret, showing palea, 

 X 16; f, habit, upper part, showing panicles, X V-,; g, habit, lower part, showing the 

 lax arching leaf blades and roots at the nodes, X %. (From Mason, Fig. 85). 



