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PANICAC'E.E. 



spikelets one at the base of the spike, 1-2 -flowered, the upper 



fertile, the lower neuter, both included in 

 a hard shining bract, having a small open- 

 ing above. Glumes of the staminate spike- 

 lets 4, all slender, hyaline, the 2 outer 

 empty, broad, acuminate, the 2 inner in- 

 cluding the hyaline palea and the pistillate 

 flower or the third empty. I^odicules very 

 rarely present, 3. Style very long, slender, 

 parted for half its length, covered with very 

 short hairs, drain globose or oblong, en- 

 closed by a smooth, hard globose or oblong 

 bract. 



Culms branching, leaf -blades l)road. 

 Spikelets often more or less included in the 

 sheaths of the upper leaves, the staminate 

 portion at length deciduous. Species 3 or 4, 

 natives of East India. 



1. C. LACIIKYMA L. 1. C. .Toij's TeARS. 



Annual; 00 cm. high. Leaf-blades 2 



cm. wide. 



The hard bract covering the lower flowers 

 Fui. 4. — Col.v Lachry- ■, , ,. i i • i i -^ i 



111(1, X I.'") Portion of ovo;(l. S mm, diaui., bluish white when ripe; 



\mmv\v. (Hiclmnlson.) sometimes used for rosaries. 

 Common in gardens, scarcely naturalized. Native of Southern 

 Europe. M. A. C. Cult. Xos. 1. 2. 



Thiiu: II.— ANDROPOGONEiE. 



S]iikelets two (rarely one) at each joint of the rachis, one sessile 

 and one pedicellate (both pedicellate in 7)'(rrJ/t/jiii(f(iti), often appa- 

 rently three at the terminal joint. Spikelets usually 1 -flowered 

 with 3 empty glumes, rarely a floral glume with a staminate flower 

 instead of the third empty glume; flrst glume always thicker than 

 the floral gUime. tlie latter often hyaline, usually bearing a bent or 

 twisted awn. Palea usuallv shorter tlian its glnnic. sometimes 0. 



