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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Utah: Ephraim, Hitchcock 10968. Provo, Tidestrom 1740. Cainville, Jones 5696. 



Vermilion, Jones 5845. Gunnison, Tidestrom 2952; Ward 678. 

 Nevada: Truckee Valley, Bailey 1351. 



New Mexico: Dog Spring, Mcarns 2409. Strauss, Stearns 402. Roswell, Griffiths 

 5729. Shiprock Agency, Standley 7218. Mesilla, Wooton 36; Standley 422; 

 Hitchcock 3817. White Mountains, Wooton & Standley 3578. Mangas Springs, 

 Metcalfe 728. Albuquerque, Harward 2, 3. Artesia, Hitchcock 13440. Kingston, 

 Metcalfe 1351. Deming, Hitchcock 3759. Carlsbad, Hitchcock 13491. 

 Arizona: Fort Huachuca, TF?7«w: 2547. Mold Reservation, Hough 108. Prescott, 

 Fernow in 1896. Chiricahua Mountains, Blumer 1782. Horseshoe Bend, Palmer 

 749. Tucson, Tourney 780. Patagonia, Hitchcock 3666. 

 California: Oro Fino, Butler 490. Piedmont, Z>ai'?/ in 1897. Pine Grove, Hansen 



601. Redding, 5m^ 745. San 



Bernardino, Parish in 1890. 



Sonora: Htrmosillo, Hitchcock 3599 . 



Chihuahua: Pacheco, Nelson 6244. 



Southwestern Chihuahua, PaZ- 



mer 18 in 1885. 



Durango: Durango, Palmer 466 in 



1896. 

 Coahuila: Saltillo, Hitchcock 5606. 



Echinochloa crusgalli edulis 

 Hitchc. 



Panicum frumentaceum Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. 1: 307. 1820. Not Panicum 

 frumentaceum Salisb. 1796. "This I 

 have only found in a state of culti- 

 vation." Described from India, 1 ait 

 no definite locality given. 



Echinochloa frumentacea Link, 

 Hort. Berol. 1:204. 1827. Based 

 on Panicum frumentaceum Roxb. 



Oplismenus frumcntaceus Kunth, 

 Rev. Gram. 1: 415. 1829. Based 

 on Panicum frumentaceum Roxb. 



Echinochloa crusgalli frumentacea 

 W. F. Wight, Suppl. Cent. Diet. 810. 

 1909. Without description, but presumably based on Panicum frumentaceum Roxb. 

 Echinochloa crusgalli edulis Hitchc, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 772: 238. 1920. 



Fig. 32.- 



■Echinochloa crusgalli edulis. 

 Texas. 



From Piper in 1912 



DESCRIPTION. 



Differs from the typical form in having dense panicles, the racemes thick, appressed, 

 incurved; spikelets awnless, mostly purple; fruits pale, usually exposed before 

 maturity, contrasting with the purple glumes. 



In the United States this is sometimes cultivated as a forage grass under the name 

 Japanese barnyard millet. For a time it was exploited under the name billion- 

 dollar crass. In India the seed is used for human food. 



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DISTRIBUTION. 



Escaped from cultivation in several localities in the eastern United States. 

 New Hampshire: Shelburne, Amcr. Gr. Nat. Herb. 430. 

 Vermont: Burlington, Hitchcock 16028. 



