98 FIRST BOOK OF GRASSES 



SERIES IL PANICAT.E 



Spikelets dorsally compressed, falling entire, singly or together 

 with parts of the axis. 



10. PANICE^, millet tribe 



Spikelets with one perfect ter- 

 minal floret and a sterile 



floret below. 



Rachilla joints very short. 

 Glumes membranaceous, the 



first small, suppressed in 



some genera; sterile lemma 



like the second glume, the 



two appearing like a pair of 



glumes. 

 Fertile lemma and palea in- FIG. 92. 



durate. 

 Inflorescence a panicle or of 



one to many racemes, these 



digitate or racemose on the 



main axis. 



[Contains millets and crab- 

 grasses.] 



