360 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Chaetochloa verticillata (L.) Scribner, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4 : 39. 1897. 



Panicum verticillatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 82. 1762. 



Setaria verticillata Beauv. Agrost. 51. 1812. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 634. Chap. Fl. 578. 



ALABAMA : Introduced from Europe and sparingly naturalized. Waste grounds. 



At Mobile has been found the tropical form with broader leaves, loose spikes with 

 longer spreading branchlets, the spreading awns twice as long as in the typical 

 form. "May be -8. pseudo-verticillata Fouruier, 1 but cau not be determined from 

 description" (E. D. Merrill). 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europa austral! et Oriente." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chaetochloa brevispica Scribn. & Merrill, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 



21:15. 1900. 



Panicum verticillatum parviflorum Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 2: 172. 1877. Not 

 Cenchrus parvi floras Poir. 1804. 



A low, spreading annual, much branched, 4 to 12 inches high, with decumbent, 

 depressed, glabrous culms, lanceolate leaves 2 to 6 inches long; dense panicles to 

 1 inches long and i inch thick, densely flowered; bristles 1 to 3, purplish, "the 

 flowering glume nearly smooth, finely transversely wrinkled. 



MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AFRICA. 



Louisianian area. Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive on ballast with C. italica (jermanica, of the same habitat as 

 the latter, but distinguished by spreading habit, short cylindrical spikes, and 

 smaller spikelets ; distinguished from C. verticillata by the smaller spikelets. 



Type locality : " Prope Rio de Janeiro lecta." 



Chaetochloa ambigua (Guss.) Scribn. & Merrill, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 



21:18. 1900. 



Setaria verticillata amligua GIISB. Prodr. 1:80. 1827. Not S. amUgua Schrad. 1838. 



A cespitose, erect, much branched annual 8 to 18 inches high, with compressed 

 culms, lanceolate leaves and rather spicate, dense panicle 2 to 4 inches long, its 

 branchlets short and solitary ; stout bristles ^ to inch long, upwardly barbellate. 



Intermediate between C. virldis and C. verticillata; distinguished from the former 

 by. the subverticillate loose panicle, stout, short bristles, and scabrous, not pilose, 

 rachis ; from C. verticillata by the bristles being upward-barbellate instead of retrorse. 



EUROPE. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. New Jersey. 



ALABAMA: Near dwellings. Mobile County (Carl Zimmer, 1884). Introduced. 



Type locality : Sicily (?). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Chaetochloa viridis (L.) Scribner, Prill. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost, 4 : 39. 1897. 



GREEN FOXTAIL. 



Panicum viride L. Sp. PL ed,2, 1 : 83. 1762. 



Setaria viridis Beauv. Agrost. 51. 1812. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 634. Chap. Fl. 578; ed. 3, 588. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 510. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 56, 1. 16, f. 63. 



Naturalized from Europe almost over the continent. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Waste places around dwellings. Mobile County. 

 June to September. Not frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europa australi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chaetochloa italica (L.) Scribner, Bull. IT. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4 : 39. 1897. 



ITALIAN OR GOLDEN MILLET. 

 Panicum italicum L. Sp. PL 1 : 56. 1753. 

 Setaria italica Beauv. Agrost. 51. 1812. 



ALABAMA : Cultivated throughout the State, rarely escaping. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Indiis." 

 Economic uses: Important forage and hay crop. 

 Herb. Mohr. 



Chaetochloa italica germanica (Mill.) Scribner, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 

 6:32. 1897. HUNGARIAN GRASS, GERMAN MILLET. 



Panicum germanicnm Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 1. 1768. 



Setaria germanica Beauv. Agrost. 31. 1812. 



Cultivated throughout the State. Mobile, fugitive on ballast ground and in waste 

 places; escaped from cultivation. June to August. 



'Mex. PI. Enum.'Gram., p. 43. 1886. 



