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branches somewhat fasciculate, erect, elongated, slender and purplish ; 
sheaths villous ; spikes on long peduncles ; the sterile ones neuter, awned. 
Broom Anprorocon. Indian Grass. Purple Wood-grass. 
—4 feet he aad eee slender, smooth, som 
Culm what compressed, sulcate on alter- 
nate sides of the inte: : nodes § mooth ; aeitisid long, wie lender, in lateral fscee, or 
sometimes in pairs, coat ‘subdi id Leaves 4-8 or 12 inches long, lance »-linear , acute- 
ich is sail as pockyge 3 as the per orfect spikelet. 
glumes lanc uch acuminated,—the ak ao bifid at pall palee nearly poor 
ciliate Bie 7g Pate! ? one deeply bifid, with a twisted a wh between the wee ge 
Ped flelds, sterile banks, and road-sid es, througho viele the United Sta Fl. Ai 
pte 
Obs. ii. ane the pee native species, are remarkably worthless 
apt Jo o abound ,in poor old neglected fields. Where 
they pre pre or no 5 fort er evidence is ‘required to demonstrate the unprofit- 
able eonton of the land, or the miserable management of the occupant. 
* Spikes digitate, at the apex of the culm or branches. 
2. A, sensu Muhl. Spikes digitale; generally in threes or fours ; 
rachis hairy ; the sterile floret staminate, awnless 
Forxep Anpropocon. Finger-spiked Tndian Grass. 
Culm about 4 feet high, smooth, teret nib ont mi-terete above, 0 nehing ; wiolles 
&mooth. 4-8 or i2 inches long, lance- einer, nerved, canbotite <n ecabrods on the 
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rachis semi-terete, pilose the angles ances c . i el: 
perfeet spikelet Bsa Slaty hills, and saris oe w ground rl. Aug. Fr. Sept. ; 
pogo: 
00r lands,—at le lvania are a few 
ticularly one with the spikes conjugate, in fastigiate bushy panicles (A. 
“ph ieeet niet gsc is not unfrequent in wet, swampy meadows ; 
but, though they are all lly worthless, these are scarcely of sufficient 
importance to require er notices in this work. 
35. SOR’GHUM, Pers. Broom Corn. oe 
e ancient name of a cultivated species 
kelets 2 — 3 tgthr on he branes of «mt Ts td pane 
Keen lateral ones sterile, mere rudiments,—the open pn . 
aces one only neta Ghaties coraceon sometimes awnless. tise : 
mens 3. For the rest as in Andro is Te 
. boi slender, Satur. 
