PANIC UM CRUS-QALLL 97 



PANICUM CRUS-GALLL 



LINN.^US. J. E. SMITH. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. LINDLEY. 



KOCH. WlLLDENOW. KNAPP. CURTIS. GRAVES. ScHRADER. HUDSON. 



LEERS. EHRHART. WITHERING. HULL. 



PLATE XXX. B. 



Panicum vulgare, GERARDE. 



Echinochloa crus-galli, BEAUVOIS. PARNELL. BABINGTON. 



" " REICHENBACH. 



Oplismenus crus-galli, KUNTH. 



The Loose Panick Grass. 

 Panicum Bread. Crus-galli ? 



PANICUM, Linnaeus. The Panick Grass, named after the Latin Pants 

 bread, from the circumstance that the seeds of some of the species are 

 made into bread. Spikelets flat in front, and rounded on the back. There 

 is only one British species, Panicum crus-galli. 



A HANDSOME interesting species, although a strong coarse-growing 

 JL\- plant, growing in damp situations, and of no agricultural use. 

 There seems to be some doubt as to whether it is strictly British. 



Found on waste land near Thetford, Norfolk; in fields near London. 

 In Hampshire and Surrey. 



A native of France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, 

 Norway, Sweden, north of Africa, and the United States of America. 



Stem upright, smooth, and striated, having three or four broad, 

 pointed, ribbed (with marginal dentations) leaves, and smooth striated 

 sheaths; upper sheath of same length as its leaf; no ligule. Joints 

 three. Inflorescence compound-panicled, compact, secund; rachis 

 angular; branches rough. Spikelets almost sessile, in clusters, com- 

 posed of two glumes and two florets, one of the florets neutral. Glumes 



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