GRASSES OF IOWA. Cm 



Millet is cultivated chiefly in northwestern Iowa. If is an excel- 

 lent annual Ljrass. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Albion (Wheeler); Ames (Crozier) ; Sioux City (Miss 

 Wakefield) ; Galva (Conger and doulcy); Ames (Ball); Cedar 

 Rapids (Miss Hall). 



North America. Maine to New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, 

 and occasionally in the northwestern states, Iowa, Minnesota and the 

 I )akotas. 



General. Cultivated since pre-historic times. It is not known in 

 a wild state. Perhaps indigenous to the East Indies; extensively culti- 

 vated in China and Japan and the East Indies and occasionally in 

 southern Russia. 



11. PANICUM PROLIFERUM. 



Panicu»i prolifenim Lam. Encyc. 4: 747. 1797. Watson and Coulter. 

 Gray. Man. Bot. 630. 1890. '6:ti ed.) Scribner. Grasses of Tenn. Bull 

 Univ. Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. 7: 43. /. 36. 1894. Am. Grasses. Bull. U. 

 S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. 7: 57. /. 51. 1900. (3ed.) Scribner and Mer- 

 rill. Rhodora 3: 104. Vasey Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 34. Beal. Grasses 

 of N. A. 2: 129. 1896. Nash in Britton and Brown. I11.F1. 1: 123. f.273 . 

 1896. 



Panicum gemculatum Muhl. Gram. 123. 1S17. 



