2i8 NATIVE FORAEE PLANTS 



SETARIA VERTICILLATA, Beauv.--(J5m% Foxtail.) 



Spikelets awnless, with short peduncles, cylindrical spikes two or 

 three inches Ions:, pale green, somewhat interrupted with whorted, short 

 clusters, bristles single or in pairs, roughened, or barbed downwards, 

 short. 



This is one of the foxtail grasses, some of which are very 

 good grazing when young. They are found on all old 

 fields, about yards in fact wherever man is there are the 

 foxtails. They are all annuals and take good care to sow 

 themselves. 



SETARIA GLAUCA, Beauv-(-B/we Foxtail). 



Stem from one to two feet high, leaves broad and hairy at the base, 

 sheaths smooth ligule bearded, spike two or three inches long dense, 

 cylindrical, bristles six to eleven in a cluster, rough upwards; perfect 

 flower transversely wrinkled. 



Flowers in July and inhabits the territory appropriated 

 everywhere by the foxtail family, that is cultivated lands. 



SETARIA VIRIDIS, Beauv.-( Green Foxtail}. 



Has a cylindrical compouned green spike, bristles longer than the 

 spikelets, few in cluster, perfect flower stirate lengthwise and dotted. 

 Annual, and flowers hi June. 



PANICUM, L. 



Is a genus rich in indigenous species. The Subdivis- 

 ion Setaria is well known through the German and Italian 

 Millet, Panicum Italicum, etc. P. sanguinale is a common 

 grass, abounding in cornfields at the end of summer, fur- 

 nishes the principal picking to stock after corn-gathering, 

 but its value at that time is but small, the saccharine matter 

 being then converted into cellulose, and the seeds drop- 

 ping out as they ripen, the spike is mostly empty. 



PANICUM GLABRUM, Gaudin. 



Abounds in orchards and pastures, and resembles the 

 former very much, but the whole plant is glabrous, while 

 the former is mostly very hairy. 



