p. TEXANUM, BUCKL. TEXAS MILLET, 189 



About 350-280 species, widely scattered over tlie earth. A 

 largo uud difficult genua. 

 r. Texaiiiini, Biickl. Texai^ Millet, Texas Panic Grass. — 



A leafy aniuiul, Ji-5 ft. high, sparingly branched. Tioaves G-Sx 

 ^-1 in; soft with rough n\argins. Panicle C-8 in. long, narrow, 

 erect, spikelets oblong, pointed. Lower, enii)ty glume half as long 

 as the second, acute, 5-nervcd. The upper glume ~)-7 nerved. 

 The Horal glume transverselv wrinkled. 



For most of thcvfollowing I am indebted to Dr G. Vasey. 

 This grass is a native of Texas. It is a grass of rapid growth, 

 succulent, yielding a largo amount of forage. 



Mr. Pryor Lea, of Texas, after trying it for some years, con- 

 siders it superior to any grass that he ever saw for hay. It is a 

 much more certain crop than millet, and cultivated with less 

 labor, and all kinds of stock prefer it. It prospers best in the 

 warmest season of the year. 



A. W. Ravenel, of S. 0., has tried Texas millet for several 

 years, and esteems it very highly. 



Dr. Pharos, of Mississippi, says. ''In habit it is much like 

 crab grass, which is inclined to crowd out this millet." 



Prof. S. B. Buckley, of Texas, says: "It grows thick and very 

 rapidly, one or two months being suflficient to bring it to maturity 

 for hay. It thrives best on the Colorado bottom lands, yet I 

 have seen it growing on poor upland soil, but it was dwarfed at 

 least one-half. It may be cut twice or three times a year." 



It need hardly bo said that this grass promises nothing for the 

 northern United States. 



AVEXA, L. 



Spikelets 2-flowered, very rarely 1-flowered, panicled, rachilla 

 jointed between the flowers, lower flowers, at least, perfect, tho 

 iqjper often male or imperfect. Empty glumes persistent below 



Ftd. 84.— Pan if H in. Taxnmim (Texas Millet); numbers 1, 3, top of a plant; 3, dorsal 

 view of spikelet ; 4, front view; 5, side view; fi, floral Rlume; 7, side view of flurul 

 Klume and Dalea.— (U. 8, Agricultural Department, details by Scribner). 



