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1. Panicum ccenicolum, F.v.M. 
Botanical name.—Panicum, Latin for a millet-like grain (indirectly 
from panis, bread), some of the species yielding food-grains ; caenicolum, 
from the Latin ccenum, dirt, filth, manure; colonwm, inhabitant, the 
grass being commonly found near the droppings of cattle. 
Vernacular name.—Mr. Koch informs me that, in common with 
Pappophorum commune and some other grasses and small herbage, 
this grass is called “ Kanta” by the aborigines of the Mount Lynd- 
hurst district, South Australia. 
Where figured.—Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 467).—Stems from a knotty branch- 
ing base, ascending to 1 foot or more. 
Leaves flat, usually softly pubescent or villous. 
Panicle of rather numerous slender simple branches, 3 to 4 inches long, at first erect, 
at length spreading, the lower ones verticillate, the upper ones alternate and 
distant, or rarely in pairs. 
Spikelets in pairs, one sessile, the other pedicellate, oblong, 14 to 2 lines long. 
Outer glume not exceeding 4 line in our specimens, the second rather shorter than 
the spikelet, five or seven nerved, the third seven to eleven nerved, both more or 
less silky-hairy and empty. 
Fruiting glume, smooth, acute. 
Value as a fodder—Valuable as a lasting grass for moist meadows. 
(Mueller.) 
Produces a fine bottom, although the panicles are large, dry, and 
spreading, and give it anything but an inviting appearance ; it is a 
kind well worth growing.—(Bailey.) 
Other uses.—Vhe grain, known as “ Power-tandra,” is eaten by the 
aborigines of Mount Lyndhurst, South Australia.—(Koch). 
Habitat and range.—In the more arid districts of this Colony, and 
also of Victoria, South and Western Australia. 
2. Panicum divaricatissimum, R.Br. 
Botanical name.—Divaricatissimum, superlative of divaricatus, a 
Latin word signifying straddling or spread out, in allusion to the 
spreading branches of the panicle. 
Vernacular name.— Spider Grass.” 
Where figured.—Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vu, 467).—Stems from a branching 
base, sometimes under, sometimes much above I| foot high. 
Leaves glabrous or more or less pubescent or softly villous, the ligula not prominent 
and not ciliate. 
Panicle of rather numerous rigidly filiform simple branches, 3 to 8 inches long, at 
first erect, at length spreading, the lower ones in a dense verticil, the upper 
ones alternate and distant. 
Spikelets in pairs, or rarely solitary along the branches, one sessile, the other 
pedicellate, 1 to 14 lines long, glabrous, or covered with long silky hairs, 
spreading when in fruit. 
Outer glume very small, ovate, obtuse, the second and third nearly equal and both 
empty, or the third rarely with a minute rudimentary palea, the second usually 
three-nerved, the third five-nerved. 
Fruiting glume ovoid, not gibbous, glabrous, smooth, acute. 
