GRAMINEjE. (grass FAMILY.) 609 
Leaves broad, flat. (The ancient name, from <j> a \6 s , shining, al- 
lading - either to the pale® or the grain.) 
1. P. arundinacea, L. (Reed Canary-Grass.) Panicle 
more or less branched, clustered, a little spreading when old ; glumes 
obtusely keeled , with flattened pointed tips, the lower one fringed on 
the margin below the middle; rudimentary flowers cartilaginous, hairy, 
i the length of the fertile one. TJ. (P. Americana, Torr., not of Ell) 
— Wet grounds. July. —Culm 2°-4° high; leaves 3"-5" wide.— 
The Ribbon-Grass of the gardens is a variety, with variegated leaves. 
2. P. Canariensis, L. (Canary-Grass.) Panicle spiked, 
oval ; glumes wing-keeled ; rudimentary flowers smooth , chartaceous, 
half the length of the fertile one. (J) — Waste places, naturalized in 
New York, Tvrrey. July - Sept. — Yields the Canary-seed. 
50. HI II.IP HI, L. Millet-Grass. 
Spikelets diffusely panicled, not jointed with their pedicels, ap¬ 
parently consisting of 2 equal membranaceous convex and awnless 
glumes, including a single coriaceous awnless flower: but, in fact, 
the lower glume is wanting, while an empty single palea of the 
lower (neutral) flower, resembling the upper glume, fulfils its 
office, and stands opposite the narrow upper palea of the terete 
fertile flower. Stamens 3. Stigmas branched-plumose. Grain 
not grooved, inclosed in the deciduous pale®. (The ancient Latin 
name of the Millet (which however belongs to a different genus), 
probably from mille, a thousand, because of its fertility.) 
1- HI. effusum, L. (Wild Millet-Grass.) Smooth (3P- 
6° high); leaves broad and flat, thin; panicle spreading (6'-9' long); 
flower ovoid-oblong. )J.—Cold woods, common northward. June. 
51. AMPHICARPUOT, Kunth. (Milium, Pursh.) 
Spikelets jointed with the apex of the pedicels, apparently I- 
flowered, of two kinds ; one kind in a strict terminal panicle, like 
those of Milium, except that the rudiment of the lower glume is 
ordinarily discernible, quite deciduous from the joint, often without 
ripening fruit, although the flower is perfect: the other kind soli¬ 
tary at the extremity of slender runner-like radical peduncles 
(more or less sheathed towards the base), much larger than the 
others, perfect and fertile, subterranean in fruit; the enwrapping 
glume and similar empty palea many-nerved. Flower oblong or 
ovoid, pointed. Stamens 3 (small in the radical flowers). Stig- 
