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larger, bearing pistillate or ])orfect flowers at the apex of slender 

 peduueles, wliieh bear sheathing braets near the base. Glumes 3, 

 the outer eni})ty, nearly ecpial (sometimes with another very small 

 one outside), the floral glume shorter, delieately membranous, or in 

 the fertile flowers soon becoming hard. Stamens or staminodea ,'3, 

 Styles distinct. (J rain oblong, enclosed, but not adherent. 



(Ji'asses with flat or involute blades. ISomewhat nearly related 

 to Miliut/iiiud /'(uiicKin. There 

 are 2 species, both found in the 

 southeastern portion of the 

 United States. 



1. A. amphicarpon (Pursh) 

 Nash. Mem. Torr. Hot. Club, 5: 

 352 (1804). Miliian amphicar- 

 2)011 Pursh, FI. Am. S-pt. 1 :G'2, t. 

 2 (ISU). Milium v Hi at urn 

 Muhl. Gram. 77 (18ir). A. 

 Piirsliii Kunth. Hev. Gram. 28 

 (l82!)-3r)). 



An erect tufted annual or bi- 

 ennial. 30-120 cm. high. Culms 

 slender, smooth. JJlade and 

 sheath hispid with rigid hairs ; 

 the former 5-10 cm. long, 3-10 

 mm. wide, the upper blade rudi- 

 mentary, the next below very 

 short and narrow. Spikelets on 

 tlie strict panicle, elliptical, acute, 

 4 mm. long, first and second 

 glumes 5-nerved ; floral glume 

 delicately 5-nerved ; palea 3- 



nerved ; subterranean spikelets fig. 2i.- Amphicarpon amphimrpon. 

 oval, acute, about 8 mm. long, J, si)ik("l.'t on the lop of plimt; <«, 6, 



dori'ts; B, subtemncan spikclet. 

 first and second glumes 15-1 1>- (Sciibner.) 



nerved. Grain ovoid, terete, obtuse, 4 mm. long. 



