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Root perennial. Culm 3-5 feet high, simple, terete, moa sslornggr bearded gives 
white appressed hairs. Leaves 6-18 inches long g, lance-linear h, serrulate on the 
margin ; sheaths nerved, smooth ; ligu bog att truncate, Siaterod 3 a lanceolate 
extension of the margins of the sheath. Panicle 6-9 inches in length,—the ultimate 
branches or pedicels of the spikelets, Signed hairy. Abortive spikelet pedicellate, 
often a mere awn-like plumose rudiment. Glumes of the ect spikelet lanceolate, indu- 
rated, of a 2 ood rail tee color,—the lower or tio 3 one hairy, embracing the ‘upper 
one, which is ooth and rather longer. Palee thin and ate ON lower ? 
one bifid, edhe below the division ; awn co ontorted, ter obliquely. 
Sterile old fields Bovlcsoes t tthe United States. FT. Au ugu: cH. Fr. September. 
2. 8. 8 om, Pers. Leav sa tihchatanecbiets, ligule short, ciliate ; 
= aig with mie “yerticillate branches, loosely ex panding. 
Suaar sorcuum. Broom C 
nnual. Culm 6-8 or 9 feet high, and half an inch to an inch in nage ee gree 
Spikelets tly in pairs, one of wich. is abortive ( minal 0 gpa n threes, two ‘being 
abortive), and fat adhe ye “3 in racemose clusters of Seco ‘S, near 
the branches. Uppe' inner tof the fertile oui with a purplish pov aun, 
about twice as long the spikelet 
Gardens and fields : cultivated, Native of India and Arabia. Fl. August. Fr. Oct. 
Obs. This species is cultivated for the sary of which brooms and 
brushes are made. It is said that Dr. Franxuiy first introduced Broom 
Corn into our country ; he chanced to see a Coes. Whisk in the possession 
of a lady, and while examining it, as a eed he spied a grain of it still 
attached - the stalk. This he took and ted. 
3. S. voiaa’rRE, Pers. -Soccnar' erect or RPS contracted ; glumes 
of the fertile pores pubesce 
Common Soreuum. Indian men Durra. ‘ 
Annual. Culm 5-9 feet high ; nodes pubescent. Leaves 6-9 inches long. Panicle 6- 
12 inches in lengt th. 
Cultivated. Native of India. FI. August. Fr. October. 
4, 8. cernv’ ba Saag Panicle densely contracted, oval, mostly rigidly 
recurved or umes villous, fringed. 
‘Daoorrye ee 
Culm 6-8 feet high ; lower nodes emitting verticillate radicles. Leaves 12~ 
Annual. 
18 inches long. Panicle 4-6 inches lon; ee green _ d, scarcely awned. 
Cultivated. Native of India. Fl. Ai = ia : f 
varieties as a pr ng plant, under t inese 
orghum, Sorgho, Imphee, &c. The ical character of 
the Sugar Plant does not seem to be se ,—it being referred by some 
S. saccharatum others to S. bicolor,—and by some writers it is 
of as Holeus saccharatus. bly a variety of S. VULGARE, 
and introduced into Pe ia forty years ago 
of “ Chocolate Corm;” and the seeds were roasted by the farmers’ 
