360 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Chaetochloa verticillata (L.) Scribner, Bull. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4:39. 1897. 
Panicum verticillatum L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1:82. 1762. 
Setaria verticillata Beauv. Agrost. 51. 1812. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 634. Chap. FI. 578. 
ALABAMA: Introduced from Europe and sparingly naturalized. Waste grounds. 
At Mobile has been found the tropical form with broader leaves, loose spikes with 
longer spreading branchlets, the spreading awns twice as long as in the typical 
form. “May be S. pseudo-verticillata Fournier,' but can not be determined from 
description” (E. D. Merrill). 
Type locality: ‘“‘ Hab. in Europa australi et Oriente.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Chaetochloa brevispica Scribn. & Merrill, Bull. U. 8. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 
21:15. 1900. 
Panicum verticillatum parviflorum Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 2:172. 1877. Not 
Cenchrus parviflorus Poir. 1804. . 
A low, spreading annual, much branched, 4 to 12 inches high, with decumbent, 
depressed, glabrous culms, lanceolate leaves 2 to 6 inches long; «lense panicles 4 to 
14 inches long and } inch thick, densely flowered; bristles 1 to 3, purplish, the 
flowering glume nearly smooth, finely transversely wrinkled. 
Mexico, SouTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AFRICA. 
Louisianian area. Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast with C. italica germanica, of the same habitat as 
the latter, but distinguished by spreading habit, short cylindrical spikes, and 
smaller spikelets; distinguished from C. verticillata by the smaller spikelets. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Prope Rio de Janeiro lecta.” 
Chaetochloa ambigua (Guss.) Scribn. & Merrill, Bull. U. 8. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 
21:18. 1900. 
Setaria verticillata ambigua Guss. Prodr.1:80. 1827. Not S. ambigua Schrad. 1838. 
A cespitose, erect, much brauched annual 8 to 18 inches high, with compressed 
culms, lanceolate leaves and rather spicate, dense panicle 2 to 4 inches long, its 
branchlets short and solitary; stout bristles + to 4inch long, upwardly barbellate. 
Intermediate between C. viridis and C. verticillata; distinguished from the former 
by the subverticillate loose panicle, stout, short bristles, and scabrous, not pilose, 
rachis; from C. verticillata by the bristles being upward-barbellate instead of retrorse, 
EUROPE. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey. 
ALABAMA: Near dwellings. Mobile County (Carl Zimmer, 1884). Introduced. 
Type locality: Sicily (?). 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Chaetochloa viridis (L.) Scribner, Pull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4:39. 1897. 
: GREEN FOXTAIL. 
Panicum viride L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1:83. 1762. 
Setaria viridis Beauv. Agrost. 51, 1812. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 634. Chap. Fl. 578; ed. 3, 588. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:510. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:56, t. 16, f. 63. 
Naturalized from Europe almost over the continent. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Waste places around dwellings. Mobile County. 
June to September. Not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Europa australi.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Chaetochloa italica (L.) Scribner, Bull. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4:39. 1897. 
ITALIAN OR GOLDEN MILLET. 
Panicum italicum L. Sp. Pl. 1:56. 1753. 
Setaria italica Beauv. Agrost.51. 1812. 
ALABAMA: Cultivated throughout the State, rarely escaping. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Indiis.” 
Economic uses: Important forage and hay crop. 
Herb. Mohr. 
Chaetochloa italica germanica (Mill.) Scribner, Bull. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 
6:32. 1897. HUNGARIAN GRASS, GERMAN MILLET. 
Panicum germanicum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8, no. 1. 1768. 
Setaria germanica Beauv. Agrost. 31. 1812. 
Cultivated throughout the State. Mobile, fugitive on ballast ground and in waste 
places; escaped from cultivation. June to August. 
'Mex. Pl]. Enum. Gram., p. 43. 1886, 
