358 GRASS FAMILY. 



* * Long white silky down with the flowers. 



Saccharum Officinamm, TRUE SUGAR-CANE: cult, far S. : rarely 

 left to flower, propagated by cuttings; stem 8 - 20 high, l'-2' thick. 2/ 



Gyn6rium arg6nteum, PAMPAS GRASS. Tall reed-like grass, from 

 S. America, planted out for ornanrcnt ; with a large tuft of rigid linear and 

 tapering recurved-spreading leaves/several feet in length ; the flowering stem 6 

 to 12 feet high, in autumn bearing an ample silvery-silky panicle. y. 



2. Spikelets in spikes: slant inate and pistillate separate, 

 * In the same spike, the upper part of which is staniinate, the, lower pistillate. 



Tripsacum dactyloides, GAMA GRASS, SESAMK GRASS. Wild in 

 moist soil from Conn. S. : proposed for fodder S. ; nutritious, but too coarse ; 

 leaves aimost as large asi those of Indian corn ; spikes narrow, composed of a 

 row of joints which brcafc apart at maturity ; the fertile cylindrical, the exter- 

 nally cartilaginous spikelets immersed in the rhachis, the sterile part thinner 

 and flat. % 

 _* _ * * In different spikes. 



Z6a Mays, MAIZE, INDIAN CORN. Stem terminated by the clustered 

 slender spikes of staminate flowers (the lassd) in 2-flowered spikelets; the pis- 

 tillate flowers in a dense and many-rowed spike borne on a short axillary branch, 

 two flowers within each pair of glumes, but the lower one neutral, the upper pig- 

 tillate, with an extremely long style, the siik. (T) j 



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