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SETARIA VERTICILLATA. 
Bravvors. Hooxrr anp Arnott. Parnett. Kocn. Linney. 
Bapineton. KuntH. 
PLATE XXXI.—A. 
Panicum verticillatum, Linnzvs. J. E. Smita. Kwappr. 
sy ee Witipenow. Curtis. GRAVES. 
ScuraperR. Host. Enrnarr. 
Hutu. Hupson. WiItTHERING. 
g2 . REICHENBACH. 
Pennisetum verticillatum, Brown. 
Gramen geniculatum, GERARDE. Bavutn. 
The Reflex Bristle-Grass. 
Setaria—A._ bristle. Verticillata—W horled. 
Srrarta, Beawvois.—The Bristle-Grass, having a compound almost cylin- 
drical spike, derives its name from the Latin seta, a bristle. There are 
three British species, yet perhaps better known under Linneus’s name of 
Panicum. 
Tur “Rough Panick-Grass” of “Smith’s English Botany.” 
Another doubtful British plant and interesting species, found 
only in cultivated fields in the counties of Middlesex and 
Norfolk, near London and Norwich. ‘ 
Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, 
Belgium, North Africa, the United States of America, and Asia, 
Stem erect, bearing four or five flat, rough, lanceolate leaves, 
with smooth striated sheaths, the upper one shorter than its 
leaf. Ligule short and blunt. Joints four. Inflorescence simple- 
panicled. Branches brief. Rachis rough. Spikelets dorsally 
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