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fertile lemma and palea subhyaline toward summit. Perennials 



Figure 1148.— Hydrochloa caroliniensis. Plant, X l A; two views of pistillate spikelet and staminate 



spikelet, X 5. (Nash 1152, Fla.) 



with slender, branching, decumbent culms and narrow many-flowered 



panicles, with capillary branchlets and pedicels. 

 Type species, Melinis minutifiora. Name from 

 Greek meline, millet. 



1. Melinis minutifiora Beauv. Molasses 

 grass. (Fig. 1151.) Culms ascending from 

 a tangled much branched base, as much as 1 m 

 tall; the foliage viscid-pubescent; blades flat, 5 



Fl ^o^rS«S n ° f to 15 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide; panicle 10 to 



20 cm long, purplish; spikelets about 2 mm 



long, the sterile lemma 2-lobed, with a delicate awn 1 to 10 mm long 



from between the lobes. % — Introduced from Brazil, though 



