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in some varieties are compound and more or 
less lobed. In this country millet is grown 
for forage but in some 
| parts of the Old World 
the seed is used for 
human food. (Setaria 
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Chetochloa italica (L.) 
Scribn. (Setaria italica Beauv. ; 
Panicum italicum L.) (Figs. 
24 and 25). Millet. Foxtail 
millet. Hungarian grass. 
Annual; culms erect, simple 
or nearly so, 2 to 4 feet high, 
or sometimes larger, glabrous 
or scabrous below the pani- 
cle; sheaths glabrous, ciliate 
on the margins and pubes- 
cent at the collar; ligule a 
densely ciliate ring 1 to 2 
mm. long; blades flat, sca- 
brous, narrowed below and toward 
the apex, 6 to 18 inches long, as_ Fig. 24. Che- 
much as an inch wide; panicle Neen oe 
dense, cylindrical, erect or in the Inflorescence, 
larger forms drooping at the apex, We 
from an inch or two to as much as a foot in 
length and from }% inch to 2 inches in diameter, 
continuous or lobed and interrupted, yellow or 
purple, bearing bristles as long as the spikelets or 
much exceeding them; rachis and branches villous; 
spikelets about 3 mm. long, the bristles from 1 
to several times the length of the spikelet, the first 
glume ovate, 3-nerved, about 1 mm. long, the 
second glume a little shorter than the spikelet, - 
cL Se pei 7-nerved, the sterile lemma similar to the second 
mon millet. Inflor- glume, as long as the spikelet; fruit easily dis- 
escence, X 4%, fruit . : ; 
“5. 7 ’ articulating above the sterile lemma, round on one 
off 
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