410 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
33. SACCHA’RUM, L. Svucar Cane. 
[Latinized from the Greek, Sacchar ; originally from the Arabic, Soukar, Sugar.] 
Spikelets in pairs—on f them pedicellate, the other sessile—each 2- 
flowered, with a tuft of ing silky hairs at base ; the lower floret neuter, 
with a single hy upper one p es 2, nearly equal, 
apex, s 
connate in ube. Stamens sessile, glabrous ; om ules 2, 
terminal, elongated; stigm lim he hairs + ate denticalate 
Grain free 2G: igantic Goal gr aae ih large silky pa 
1. S. orricrna’rum, L. Leaves flat; panicle large and a g5 
— elets racemose on the slender branches ; florets triandrous ; to 
oletely 1-nerved, or keeled, invested with long silky hairs a t base 
OrFiotnaL Saccuarum. Sugar Cane 
Fr. Cannea Sucre. Germ. pecs Packnariiie Span. Catia de Azucar. 
Root pe ial (a nodose rhizoma). Culm 8-15 or 20 ee high, and 1 s in di- 
ameter, gig ‘numer ous nodes , and ans with vith gi rte near- eek oy pes Gooner 
a resemb Corn). Panicle a foot or More in length, loosely ae 
the branches “numerous, filiform ee 6 inches long, remarkably plamose, or aang 
with verticils Or tu ifts of long white silky hairs t the base of ae racemose spikelets. 
Cultiva South of the Union. ative of 
Asia. FT. Fr. 
Obs. The Sugar Cane is rarely permitted to coe under rohan 
ange ‘propagated by sections of the culm. The value and i 
of this noble Grass, in the domestic economy an a commerce of the 
civilized world, are too well known to require comment. Not having 
the advantage of an acquaintance vith the living pat and its eulture, 
pad seta ee and remarks are necessarily very imperfect. Some 
be 
ting n may found in “ Rees’ Cyclopedia,” Art. Sugar ; 
and 3 in the “ rina Encyclopedia.” * pe 
34. ANDROPO’GON, L. Brarp Grass. 
[Greek ; literally Man’s-beard,—in allusion to the hairy spikets.] 
Spikelets 2-flowered, in pairs on each joint of the slender rachis, spiked 
or racemose ; one of the spikelets pedicellate and sterile, often a mere 
rigid culms, smoo 
and terminal, often clustered or digitate spikes ; the rachis hairy or ae 
mose-bearded. 
* Spikes solitary at the apex of the culm and branches. 
LA. scopa’rius, Mz, Culm paniculately_ branched ter 
