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Fig. 42. Milium effusum L. WILD MILLET.— a, b, Spikelets; c, dorsal view 

 of the flowering glume; d, anterior view of the same showing a portion of the 

 nearly inclosed palea. 



42. MILIUM Linn. Sp. PI. 61. 1753. Spikelets 1-flowered; rachilla articu- 

 lated above the empty glumes, not produced into a conspicuous callus nor 

 extended above the flowering glume. Glumes 3, obtuse, awnless; the first two 

 empty, subequal, membranous, convex; the 3d or flowering glume usually 

 smooth and shining, becoming indurated in fruit; palea nearly as long as its 

 glume. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct; stigmas plumose. Grain ovoid or 

 oblong, free within the hardened glume and palea. Annual or perennial 

 grasses, with flat leaves and open panicles, differing from Oryzopsis in the obtuse 

 and awnless flowering glume. 



Species 5 or 6 in the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, 1 in North America. 



