_ GENERA OF GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES. 257 
Fic. 156.—Sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum. Sketch of three stems, much reduced; 
a few branches of panicle, ¥ 3; spikelet with pedicel of second spikelet (the shorter) 
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and joint of rachis, x 5. 
97769°—19—Bull, 77217 
