78 GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



upright, three to five feet high, leaves very long, flat, panicle 

 large, loose and compound, branches spreading when grown, 

 and drooping, spikelets scattered, oval, pointed, glumes usually 

 purplish. Grows pretty commonly in moist, sandy soils, and 

 flowers in August. 



Broad-leaved Panic Grass, (^panicum latifolium.^ This is 

 a grass with a perennial, fibrous root, and stem from one to two 

 feet high, and leaves broad, long, taper-pointed, smooth or 

 slightly downy, branches of panicle spreading,. spikelets long, 

 obovate, downy. Flowers in June and July. It is common in 

 moist thickets and woods. Of no value for cultivation. 



The HiDpEN-FLOWERED Panic Grass, {panicum dandestinum,') 

 the Yellow Panic Grass, (^panicum xanthopJiT/sum,} the Poly- 

 MORPHUS Panic Grass, (^panicum dichotomum,') the Few-flow- 

 ered Panic Grass, Qpanicum depauperatum,^ the Warty- 

 flowered Panic Grass, (^panicum verntcosum,') are sometimes 

 found, the first, in low thickets and along the banks of rivers, 

 not very common ; the second, on dry and sandy soils, pine 

 plains, rare ; flowers in June ; the third, in dry and low grounds, 

 not very common, flowers in June and July ; the fourth, on 

 dry, sandy hill-sides, more common than the preceding ; the 

 fifth, in sandy swamps, near the coast. None of these are 

 valuable for cultivation, nor are they troublesome as some of 

 the preceding species of panic are, on account of their places 

 of growth. 



Barn Grass, or Barnyard Grass, (^panicum crtis-g-alli,') is 

 more common. Its spikes are alternate and in pairs, sheaths 

 smooth, rachis bristly, stem from two to four feet high, stout, 

 erect, or somewhat procumbent, leaves half an inch broad, 

 panicle dense, pyramidal, glumes acute, awn variable in length 

 and sometimes wanting, outer palea of the neutral flower, 

 usually awned ; one or two varieties have rough or bristly 

 sheaths. It grows on moist, rich or manured soils and along 

 the coast in ditches. Flowers in August, September and Oc- 

 tober. 



, Some experiments have been made to cultivate this common 

 species in the place of millet, to cut for green fodder. It is rel- 

 ished by stock and is very succulent and nutritive. 



Hungarian Millet, Moha de Hongrie, (panicum g-ermani- 

 cum,^ has been cultivated to some extent in this State, from 



