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Fig. 98. MILIUM EFFTJSTJM L. Sp. PI. 01. 17.53. WILD MILLET.— A pale- 

 green perennial, with simple culms 6-14 dm. (2°-5°) high, with broad, flat, 

 spreading leaves and diffuse panicles 1.5-20 cm. (6'-8') long. Branches of the 

 panicle two to five together, flower-bearing above, naked below. Spikelets (a, 6) 

 3 mm. m") long; empty glumes nearly eqnal, 3-nerved, a little longer than the 

 oblong, obtuse flowering glume (e).— Woods and ravines. Cape Breton Island 

 tOAvestem Ontario, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota. (Europe, Asia.) 

 June, July. 



A fine growing woodland grass of some agricultural value. 



