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fertile lemma and palea subhyaline toward summit. Perennials 



FIGURE I148.Hydrochloa caroliniensis. Plant, X 1 A; two views of pistillate spikelet and staminate 

 spikelet, X 5. (Nash 1152, Fla.) 



with slender, branching, decumbent culms and narrow many-flowered 

 panicles, with capillary branchlets and pedicels. 

 Type species, Melinis minutiflora. Name from 

 Greek meline, millet. 



1. Melinis minutiflora Beauv. MOLASSES 

 GRASS. (Fig. 1151.) Culms ascending from 

 a tangled much branched base, as much as 1 m 

 tall; the foliage viscid-pubescent; blades flat, 5 

 to 15 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide; panicle 10 to 

 20 cm long, purplish; spikelets about 2 mm 

 long, the sterile lemma 2-lobed, with a delicate awn 1 to 10 mm long 

 from between the lobes, 01 Introduced from Brazil, though 



