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PANICUM CRUS-GALLI. 
Linnevus. J. E. Smita. Hooxrer anp Arnott. LINDLEY. 
“Kocu. Wirtpenow. Knapp. Curtis. Graves. Scuraper. Hupson. 
Lerers. Enrumart. WirHerine. HULL. 
PLATE XXX.—B. 
Panicum vulgare, GERARDE. 
Echinochloa crus-galli, Beavvotis. Parnetyt. Basineron. 
ae a REICHENBACH. 
Oplismenus crus-galli, KunrtH. 
The Loose Panick Grass. 
Panicum—Bread, Crus-galli— ? 
Panicum, Linneus.—The Panick Grass, named after the Latin Panis— 
bread, from the circumstance that the seeds of some of the species are 
made into bread. Spikelets flat in front, and rounded on the back. There 
is only one British species, Panicum crus-galli. 
A HANDSOME interesting species, although a strong coarse- 
growing plant, growing in damp situations, and of no agricultural 
use. ‘There seems to be some doubt as to whether it is strictly 
British. 
Found on waste land near Thetford, Norfolk; in fields near 
London. In Hampshire and Surrey. 
A native of France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, 
Holland, Norway, Sweden, north of Africa, and the United 
States of America. 
Stem upright, smooth, and striated, having three or four broad, 
pointed, ribbed (with marginal dentations) leaves, and smooth 
