Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINEX. 479 
the rhachis without bristles but occasionally a few small empty scales 
(abortive spikelets ?) at the base of the spike. Outer glumes coarsely 
ubescent or nearly glabrous, the lowest nearly half as long as the 
and 38rd 
but not awned; a palea in the 3rd glume. Fruiting glume smooth 
and shining.— Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 60; pE iiy colonum, Kunth, 
Enum. i. 142. 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
Common in the €— and — 9 Hx oe of the Old World and in many 
merica. F. Mueller, Fra 8, unites it with the P. erus-galli, and 
ustralian specimens poets pe e cae pra to that species, but the small 
awnless spikelets in more regul pikes, a $ bsence of tles on the 
p refer them rather to the tropical P. colonum, The figure of Jacq 
ram 
t. 32 does not appear to me to ood ae the true P, colonum. 
27. P. Linn.—A coarse decumbent eS — 
to 1 or 2 th. re leaves rather broad, without any prod icle Mae 
rarely a male flower in its axil. Fruiting gloom smooth and shining, 
Without any or only a seg short point.—R. Br. Prod. 191; F. Muell. 
ragm. viii. 198 ; e Spec. Gram. t. 161, 162; Oplis smenus crus- 
galli, Kunth, Enum. . 143; Echinochloa crus us-galli, Beauv. ; Reichb. 
le. FL Germ. t. 29 
N. mang tralia, Victoria River and M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. Port Molle, 4. Cunningham ; Port De enison, Fitzalan ; Brisbane 
Ooh Now es F. Mueller and others; Rockhampton aad nei ighbo bourhood, 
N. Vales Paterson River, R. Brown ; Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains 
and northw: war to Now England, Woolls, C. Moore, C. Stuart and others 
Vi immera, F. M: 
W. Australia. Swan ires Helnich. 
A common weed in most hot and some temperate countries and very probably siy 
as an introduced weed in several of the dum localities, m "- — m res 
urope. 
P: lacunarium, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 47, from around the lagoons 
of the Murray, is reduced by F. Mueller, viii. 198, to a vari — of F P. crus-galli, Mond 
Panicle is er than with fewer more distant b no cilia on 
hachis, the akole large, mostly about 2 lines hey without awns ue 
glabrous nerves sA scabrous, and appears t ways a male 
i much rese few of a 
er in the t glume. im 
European on es, but the above dhacténti may possibly prove constant. 
