358 GRASS FAIIILT. 



* * Lrmij while silky down with thejiutvcrs. 



S&ccharum ofS.ciu&rum, True Sdgar-Cank : cult, far S. : rarely- 

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



Gynferium arg^nteum. Pampas Gkass. Tall reed-like grass, from 

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

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

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



§ 2. Siiiheleis in spikes: siaminate and pistillate separate, 

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



Tripsacum dactyloides, Gama Grass, Sesamr Grass. Wild in 

 moist soil from Conn. S. : proposed for fodder S. ; nutritious, 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 rhacbis, the sterile part thinner 

 and flat. y. 



» * In different spikes. 



Z6a Miys, Maize, Indian Corn. Stem terminated by the clustered 

 slender spikes of staminate flowers (the tassel) in 2-flowered spikelers; the pis- 

 tillate flowers in a dense and many-rowed spike home 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 style, the sitk. ® 



