GRAMINEjE. 
(grass family.) 
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staminate of one palea which closely resembles the upper glume 
and sometimes with a second thin one. Upper flower perfect,’ 
losed coriaceous or cartilaginous, usually flattish parallel with 
the glumes, awnless, inc]osing the ^ and groove)ess 
!aT K ‘ gmaS P 0Se ’ USUaI ' y PUrple ' < An a “'ient Latin 
Z t\ 7 g fl t0 T me fr0 ” ^ bread; S ° me s P ecies P“ r nish- 
mg a kind of bread-corn, e. g. Millet.) 
§ 1. DigitAru Scop. Spikelets crowded 2-3 together in simple and 
ZZJ 7 f USter 7 SpikeS °' “P**- 1 *' ’•“«'»«. "lolly ownless 
andjmnthss: lower fewer neutral, of a single palea: lower glume 
minute, in o. 3 wanting. ° 
1. P.sangMinale.L, (Finger-Grass. Crab-Grass.) Culms 
spreading from the tufted base, then upright (l°-2° high) ; leaves lin¬ 
ear-lanceolate and sheaths rather hairy; spikes 4-15, digilate-cIvsUr- 
tha 7h ke J eU ° bi °Z S (l " l0ng) ’ <,ow »y-“afgined; upper glume shorter 
tronM flnW "' ®T Ve ° Where niUuralized in cultivated grounds, 
troublesome .n gardens. Aug.-Oct. - Spikes and often thf leaves 
purplish ; as also in the other species. 
Gaudin. Procumbent or spreading (6' -12' 
long) smooth or nearly so; spikes 2-6, somewhat alternate-clustered 
spreading; spikelets ovoid, rather hairy (1" long) ; upper glume near¬ 
ly equalling the flower. (5) — Sandy fields. Aug. 
d. P. filiforinc, L. Culms extremely slender, upright (l°-2° 
high); leaves narrow; lower sheaths hairy; spikes 2-8, alternate 
and approximated, thread-like; spikelets all distinctly pedicellrd, ob- 
long, acute (£" long); lower glume none, (l) — Dry sandy soil, from 
Massachusetts near the coast to New Jersey and southward. August. 
§ 2. Panicum proper. — Spikelets scattered, paraded, awnless. 
* Panicle elongated and racemose, wand-like or pyramidal; the numer¬ 
ous (usually pointed) spikelets short-pedicel led, excepting No. 7. 
Sterile flower neutral, fully twice the length of the lower glume: 
spikelets small (less than 1" long). 
4. P. unceps, Michx. Culms flat, upright (2°-4° high); 
leaves rather broadly linear (l°-2° long, 4"-5" wide), smooth; pan¬ 
icle contracted-pyramidal; spikelets ovate-lanceolate , pointed , a little 
curved; upper glume 7-nerved ; neutral flower £ longer than the per¬ 
fect, of 2 pale*. 1J. — Wet soil, Pine barrens of New Jersey and 
southward. Aug. —Allied to the next: spikelets and branches of 
the panicle longer. 
^ J** agrrostoldes, Spreng. Culms flattened , upright (2 ° 
high) ; leaves long, and with the sheaths smooth; panicles terminal 
and often lateral, pyramidal (4 ; -8* long); the spikelets racemose, 
crowded and one-sided on the spreading branches, ovate-oblong , acute 
