220 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS 



where in the United States. It affects, however, the banks 

 of streams especially. From its bitter taste it is not eaten 

 by stock. 



PANICUM ANCEPS,Michx.--(FariaWe Panic Grass). 



Stems flat, from two to three feet high ; spikelets panicled or recom- 

 ed, sometimes spiked ; glumes two, the lower one short, and sometimes 

 wanting. Worthless. 



PANIUM PROLIFERUM, ^.-(Proliferous Panic Grass). 



Annual, growing in wet meadows, river banks. Cattle are very fond 

 of this grass. Culm 1-3 feet long, succulent. Leaves 8-12 inches or 

 more in length, and half an inch wide. Sheaths a little hairy at the 

 throat. Panicles large and pyramidal ; the branches much divided, 

 straight and capillary. Lower glume very broad rather obtuse ; upper 

 one acute, about 7-nerved. Perfect flower shorter than the glumes, 

 acute, smooth, anthers orange. 



PANICUM CAPILLABE, L-(OW Witch Grass). 



Exceedingly common around Nashville. Annual. Culm 1-2 feet high ? 

 branching at the base and forming a tuft. Leaves flat 2-5 lines wide, 

 hairy with long fine spreading hairs ; panicle large, pyramidal made up 

 from very fine, brittle branches, getting easily diffracted when they 

 become old. Spikelets very small. Old fields when covered with it look 

 like a smoke or haze were spreading over them. Cattle will not touch it. 



PANICUM LATIFOLIUM--(5road-featK5d Panic Grass). 



Perennial. Common in barrens, especially in moist thick- 

 ets around Nashville. It stands in full vigor in May. A 

 very good pasture grass, bearing the closest grazing, and 

 constantly reviving. Unfortunately it prefers to live scat- 

 tered intermixed with other plants, not socially. 



Culm 1-2 feet high, simple or somewhat branching. Leaves 3-4 

 inches long, and an inch or more in breadth, cordate and clasping at the 

 base, commonly smooth, but often hairy, spreading horizontally, sheaths 

 about half the length of the internodes, ciliate at the throat, or on the 

 entire margin. Panicle about 2 inches long, bearing usually but ten spike- 

 lets, which are about a line and a half long. Lower glume ovate, 

 loose, upper one strongly nerved. 



PANICUM CLANDESTINUM, ^-(Hidden-flowered Panic Grass). 



Perennial. Similar, and growing intermixed with the above, but a 

 month later. Culm with short axillary branches, 1-3 feet high, very 



