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Grain enclosed in the hardened glume and palea, but free from them. 
Awnlike panicle-branches, scabrous, with erect teeth. 
Panicle cylindrical, simple, 1 to 14 inches long, the spikelets solitary 
at the base of the awnlike branches a) sas ane Po 1. S. glauca. 
Panicle dense or interrupted, 3 to 8 inches long, the spikelets 
clustered near the base of the awnlike branches ne 2. 8. macrostachya. 
1. Setaria glauca, Beauv.* 
Botanical name.—Setaria, from the Latin seta, a bristle, referrimg 
to the awn-like, barren branches of the panicle; glauca, Latin, grey 
or blue, or sea-green. In botany, glaucous, 7.e., a whitish, waxy- 
green, like the green of a cabbage-leaf. 
Vernacular names.—“ Pigeon-grass,” “Yellow Foxtail,” “ Bottle- 
glass Foxtail” of the United States. 
Where fiqured.—Trinius, Vasey, Hackel, Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 492).—An erect annual of a pale 
green, 1 to 2 feet high. 
Leaves flat, with scabrous edges, and often ciliate, with a few long hairs. 
Spikelike panicle, simple, cylindrical, 1 to 14 inches long, the spikelets solitary at the 
base of numerous awn-like branches, many of which are barren, and all scab- 
rous, with minute teeth directed upwards. 
Spikelets ovoid, about 13 lines long. 
Outer glume very small, the second not quite so long as the third; a palea and 
very rarely stamens in the third. 
Fruiting glume more or less gibbous, marked with prominent transverse wrinkles. 
Value as a fodder—It is a weed of gardens, orchards, &c., in many 
parts of the Colony, preferring low-lying situations where the ground 
has been newly broken up and is moist. It is of a spreading habit, 
green and succulent, and yields a fair quantity of fodder, which stock 
eat readily enough. It comes up in the summer months and dies 
down with the cold weather. Vasey says that it is very common in 
cultivated fields in the United States, especially amongst stubble after 
the cutting of grain. It is as nutritious as S. italica, but not so pro- 
ductive. 
Duthie states that it is generally considered to be a fairly good 
fodder-grass in India, quoting Symonds, who says that it affords a 
moderately good fodder, but that it is unsuited for making hay. In 
the central provinces of India it is used as fodder. 
Other uses.—The grain is used as food in the central provinces 
ot India. (Duthie.) 
Habitat and range.—Where truly indigenous, usually met with along 
river banks, &c., where the soil is rich. Found in all the Colonies 
except Tasmania. In this Colony it occurs in most districts. Itis a 
cosmopolitan species. 
* Sometimes this author’s name is given in the contracted form as Palisot. His full 
name is A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois, and he is the author of an important work on 
grasses published at Paris in 1812. 
