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Fig. ei. PANICTJM CRUS-GALLI L. !^p. PI. 5r.. 1758. BARNYARD-GRASS.— 

 A coarse. a.scending or trec-t. leafy annual 3-18 dm. (l°-6°) high, with more 

 or less dense panicles of numerous erect or spreading spikes 5-12 cm. ci'-S') 

 long. Spikelets i a, b) 2-3 mm. a'-l^''^ long- densely and irregularly crowded 

 in three or four rows along one side of the axis: first glume one-fourth to one- 

 half as long as the third; second and third glumes pubescent or muricate-hispid 

 along the nerves, the second awnless or short-awned. the third awnless or with 

 a long rigid awn. The awnless form has been called var. muticum Vasey . Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 37. 1892. The species is longer-awned than the plant here 

 figured.— Almost everywhere in the United States in barnyards, waste ground, 

 and river banks. (Throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres.) 

 Flowers all summer. 



Of some value in the South, where by its spontaneous growth it often yields a 

 fair hay crop. The form shown in the illustration is one of the several varie- 

 ties that grows in the Southwest and in Mexico, the grain of Avhich is used as 

 food bv the Indians. 



