PANICE^. 125 



South Carolina to Florida in the sands of the coast. Leaves 

 bitter. 



Var. minor V. & S. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 3G (1892). 



A smaller form with larger spikelets, growing from Connecticut 

 to North Carolina. 



New Jersey, U. S. Depf. AgricuJ. -tl from Isaac Burk. 



35. P. MiLiACEUM L. Sp. ri. 58 (1753). Millet. 



Annual ; culms stout, erect, branching, often rough, 60-120 

 cm. high. Sheaths often beset with hairs from warty bases; 

 blades numerous, flat, hairy or smooch, 30-50 cm. long, 2-3 cm. 

 wide. Panicle usually exserted, compound, pyramidal or ovoid, 

 spreading and in most races nodding in fruit, 15-30 cm. long. 

 Spikelets all pedicelled, mainly borne towards the ends of the 

 branches, mostly oblong, elliptical, acute, 4 mm. long, first glume 

 broad, acute, 5-nerved, about 3 mm. long, second glume and the 

 floral glume of the neuter floret much alike, the former 7-9-nerved, 

 the latter 13-nerved, its palea about 2 mm. long; fertile floret 

 smooth, shining, oval, almost acute, 3 mm. long. 



Said to be a native of India. Extensively cultivated in tropical 

 and temperate regions. 



Turkey for Conley by Sartwell; Louisiana, LangJois. 



36. P. arenarium Cham. & Schlecht. Linn. 6:35 (1831). 

 P. Kunthii Yowvw. Mex. PI. Euum. Gram. 29 (1886). 



Culms stout, tall (?), lower sheaths loose, smooth, about as long 

 as the internodes; ligule a ciliate ring; blades flat, smooth or pilose 

 at the base, 20-30 cm. long, 5-10 mm. broad. Panicles terminal, 

 spreading, 20-35 cm. long, rays erect, single or in pairs, the long- 

 est two-thirds as long as the panicle, bearing 3-8 spikelets above 

 the middle on its rather stift' but slender branches. Spikelets in 

 pairs, linear-lanceolate 4 mm. long, pedicel of one of them 1 mm. 

 long, the other 4-5 mm. long; first glume deltoid, 3-nerved. about 

 1.5 mm. long, second and third subequal, the former 7-nerved, the 

 latter 9-nerved; floret linear, acute, the floral glume 3 mm. long, 

 7-9-nerved. Grain elliptical. 1.7-2 mm. long. 



Mexico. Bourgcau 529. 



37. P. Havardii Yasey, Bull. Torr. Club. 14:95 (1887). P. 



