SETARIA VERTICILLATA. 



SETARIA VERTICILLATA. 



BEAUVOIS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. KOCH. LINDLEY. 

 BABINGTON. KUNTH. 



PLATE XXXI. A. 



Panicum verticillatum, LINNAEUS. J. E. SMITH. KNAPP. 



" " WILLDENOW. CURTIS. GRAVES. 



" SCHRADER HOST. EHRHART. 

 HULL. HUDSON. WITHERING. 



" " REICHENBACH. 



Pennisetum verticillatum, BROWN. 



Gramen geniculatum, GERARDE. BAUHIN. 



The Reflex Bristle- Grass. 

 Setaria A bristle. Verticillata Whorled. 



SETARIA, Beauvois. The Bristle-Grass, having a compound almost cylin- 

 drical spike, derives its name from the Latin seta, a bristle. There are 

 three British species, yet perhaps better known under Linnaeus's name of 

 Panicum. 



THE "Rough Panick-Grass" of " Smith's English Botany." Another 

 doubtful British plant and interesting species, found only in cul- 

 tivated fields in the counties of Middlesex and Norfolk, near London 

 and Norwich. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, 

 North Africa, the United States of America, and Asia. 



Stem erect, bearing four or five flat, rough, lanceolate leaves, with 

 smooth striated sheaths, the upper one shorter than its leaf. Ligule 

 short and blunt. Joints four. Inflorescence simple panicled. Branches 

 brief. Rachis rough. Spikelets dorsally compressed, almost sessile, 

 clustered, having involucral bristles longer than the spikelets, and each 



