358 GRASS FAMILT. 



« « hang white silky doum with the flowers, 



S&CCharum 0fS.Cin&ruin, True Sugar-Caite : cult, far S. : rarely 

 left to flower, propagated by cuttings ; stem 8° - 20° high, 1 ' - 2' thick. % 



Gyn6rium argdnteum, Pampas Grass. Tall reed-like grass, from 

 S. Ajnerica, planted out for ornament ; with a large tuft of rigid linear and 

 tapering recurved-spreading leaves, several feet in length ; the flowering stem 6 

 to 12 feet high, in autumn bearing an ample silvery-silky panicle, y, 



§ 2. Spikelels in spikes : staminate and pistillate separate, 

 * In the same spike, the upper part of which is laminate, the lower pistillate. 



Tripsaeum dactyloldes, Gama Grass, Sesame Grass. Wild in 

 moist soil from Conn. S. : proposed for fodder S. ; nutritions, but too coarse; 

 leaves almost as large as those of Indian com ; spikes narrow, composed of a 

 row of joints which break apart at maturity ; the fertile cylindrical, the exter- 

 nally cartilaginous spikelets immersed in the rhachis, the sterile part thinner 

 and flat. JJ. 



* « in different spikes. 



Z6a Md^ys, Maize, Indian Corn. Stem terminated by the clustered 

 slender spikes of staminate flowers (the tassel) in 2-flowcrcd spikelets; the pis- 

 tillate flowers in a dense and many-rowed spike borne on a short axillary branch, 

 two flowers within each pair of glumes, but the lower one neutral, the upper pis- 

 tillate, with an extremely long ntyle, the silk. ® 



