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the Tropics for forage. It has been tried in the warmer parts of the 

 South. Molasses grass is a rather stout perennial, with viscid-pubes- 

 cent foliage, and narrow many-flowered panicles of very small 

 awned spikelets. 



FIG. 127. Hydrochloa carolinensis. Plant, X \ ; two views of pistillate spikelet, X 5 ; 



stamina te spikelet, X 5. 



12. PANICEAE, THE MILLET TRIBE. 



108. ANTHAENANTIA Beauv. 1 



Spikelets obovoid; first glume wanting; second glume and sterile 

 lemma about equal in length, broad, 5 -nerved, villous, the sterile 

 lemma with a small palea and sometimes with a staminate flower; 

 fertile lemma cartilaginous, boat shaped, 3-nerved, subacute, chest- 



1 For a discussion of this and the following genera of this tribe, see Chase, Proc. Bioi. 

 Soc. Washington, 19:183-192, 1906; 21:1-10, 1908; 21:175-188, 1908; 24:103-160, 

 1911. 



