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nm. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. Often cultivated in the North- 

 ern States for syrup and sugar. 



"Egyptian Rice-corn:" Panicle dense, ovoid, 15 cm. long, 

 suspended from tlie "crook-necked *' culm. Spikelets light-colored, 

 awn I cm. or less in length, the white grain protruding; branclies. 

 pedicels and outer glumes well clothed with soft hairs, nerves tinged 

 with red. First glume (in one case) 2o-nerve(l, second 15-nerved. 

 Otherwise much like "Amber Cane." Cultivated in Kansas, Cali- 

 fornia and India. The following notes are made concerning a race 

 sent out by the U. S. Dcpt. Agricul. as "IIt)nduras." 



Tall, panicle erect, 30-40 cm. long, about 10 cm. wide, more or 

 loss s})()tted and tinged with red. Sessile s})ikelets G mm. long, 

 tliiidy covered with short hairs the awn usually less than 1 cm. 

 long. Tliere are many races in cultivation in tropical countries 

 for grain, sugar, and fodder. 



27. A. nutans avenaceus (.Michx.) Hack. D. C. ^lonog. Plian. 

 (!: 0:50 (1S8!I). Amiroiuxjon uvenan'iis Michx. Fl. Hor. Am. 1 : aS 

 (1S():5). Sor(//iN)ii iiiitaiix A. Gray, :\ran. Kd. 1. fJi; (hs+s). S. arc- 

 iKircinii Cliapm. Fl. S. Spates. b^'.\ (IS(IO). (1injsiip(i<iiin arciHirr/is 

 Henth. .lourn. Linn. Soc. 19:73 (1881). Lvdiax Grass. 

 Wood (Iuass. 



A graceful perennial 50-150 cm. high, with very hard matted 

 root-stocks. licaf-blades linear-hmceolate, glaucous, tl.it. 30-00 cm. 

 long, 1-1.5 cm. wide. Panicle narrowly oblong, nodding, 15-:}0 

 cm. lojig, pedicels hairy, a little shorter than the s})ikelets. Fer- 

 tile spikelets shining, yellowish brown, lanceolate, hairy, about (J 

 mm. long. Kmpty glumes e(|ual, obtuse with involute margins, 

 first nearly Hat on the back. 5-!>-nerved, second 5-nerved, third 

 oval, haiiT on the margins, "i-nerved, fourth still shorter, 3-nervcd. 

 •2-lobed, bearing an awn 0.5-3 cm. long: palea about 1 nini. long. 

 Lodicules flesliy. smooth, truncate, ovi-r 0.5 mm. long. Tlie ster- 

 ile spikelets suudl, neuter, deciduous or reduced to a pedicel. 



Very variable. Tt is ilitVicult to decide whether the two follow- 

 ing varieties shoidd not be included as a part of the species. 



Vt.. rrinf/Ir; N. J,, Srrifnn'r for V. S. Dept. Agricul. 20: ; 

 Ala., Mo/ir\'ov Dr. Clark -^^oi ; Texas. A'm/ fori'. S. r)ept. Agrictil. 



