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nm. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. Often cultivated in the North- 

 ern States for syrup and sugar. 



"Egyptian Kice-corn:" Panicle dense, ovoid, 15 cm. long, 

 suspended from the ' ' crook-necked " culm. Spikelets light-colored, 

 awn 1 cm. or less in length, the white grain pi'otruding; branches, 

 pedicels and outer glumes well clothed with soft luiirs, nerves tinged 

 with red. First glume (in oue case) 25-nerved, second 15-nerved. 

 Otherwise much like "Amber Cane." Cultivated in Kansas, Cali- 

 fornia and India. The following notes are made concerning a race 

 sent out by the U. S. Dept. Agricul. as "Honduras." 



Tall, panicle erect, 30-40 cm. long, about 10 cm. wide, more or 

 less spotted and tinged with red. Sessile spikelets 6 mm. long, 

 thinly covered with short hairs the awn usually less than 1 cm. 

 long. There are many races in cultivation in tropical countries 

 for grain, sugar, and fodder. 



27. A. nutans avenaceus (Michx.) Hack. D. C. Monog. Phan. 

 6:530(1880). A ndropogon avenaceus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:58 

 (1803). Sorghnm mitans A. Gray, Man. Ed. 1, 617 (1848). 8. ave- 

 naceum Chapm. Fl. S. States, 583 (1860). Chrysopogon avenaceus 

 Benth, Journ. Linn. Soc. 19:73 (1881). Indian Grass. 

 Wood Grass. 



A graceful perennial 50-150 cm, high, with very hard matted 

 root-stocks. Leaf -blades linear-lanceolate, glaucous, flat, 30-60 cm. 

 long, 1-1.5 cm. wide. Panicle narrowly oblong, nodding, 15-30 

 cm. long, pedicels hairy, a little shorter than the spikelets. Fer- 

 tile spikelets shining, yellowish brown, lanceolate, hairy, about 6 

 mm. long. Empty glumes equal, obtuse with involute margins, 

 first nearly flat on the back, 5-9-nerved, second 5-nerved, third 

 oval, hairy on the margins, 2-nerved, fourth still shorter, 3-nerved, 

 2-lobed, bearing an awn 0.5-2 cm. long; palea about 1 mm, long. 

 Lodicules fleshy, smooth, truncate, over 0.5 mm. long. The ster- 

 ile spikelets small, neuter, deciduous or reduced to a pedicel. 



Very variable. It is difficult to decide whether the two follow- 

 ing varieties should not be included as a part of the species. 



Vt.. Pringle; N, J., Bcribner for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 207 ; 

 Ala. , Molir for Dr. Clark 2501 ; Texas, Beed for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 



