142 COMMON MILLET. 



pretty commonly in moist, sandy soils, especially at the 

 South ; flowers in August. 



Bitter Panic (Panicum amarum) is found on sandy 

 shores, from Connecticut to Virginia, and further south. 

 Flowers in August and September. 



Beoad-leaved Panic Geass {Panicum TMifolium). • — 

 This is a grass with a perennial, fibrous root, and stem 

 from one to two feet high ; with leaves broad, long, 

 taper-pointed, smooth or slightly downy; branches of 

 panicle spreading; spikelets long, obovate, downy. 

 Flowers in June and July. It is common in moist 

 thickets and woods. Of no value for cultivation. 



The HiDDEN-FLOWBEED Panic Geass {Panicum dan- 

 destinum) is found in low thickets, and on the banks of 

 streams, from one to three feet high, very leafy to the 

 top, the joints naked ; sheaths rough, and bearing very 

 stiff and spreading bristly hairs. Flowers from July to 

 September. 



Yellow Panic Geass {Panicum xanthophyswm) 

 grows on dry, sandy soils, from Maine to Wisconsin, 

 and northward. It is of a yellowish-green color, the 

 spikelets downy; sheaths hairy ; leaves lanceolate, 

 acute, smooth, except on the margins. 



Sticky Panic Geass (Panicum msddum) grows 

 with an upright stem, leafy to the top, densely velvety, 

 downy all over, including the sheaths, with reflexed, 

 soft, often clammy hairs, except a ring below the joint; 

 panicles spreading; spikelets long and downy. Moist 

 soils, from New Jersey to Virginia, and southward. 



Common Millet {Panicum miliaceum). — Flowers in 

 large, open, nodding panicles; leaves lance-shaped,, 

 broad ; stem one to two feet high ; native of Turkey. 

 It is shown in Fig. 122. 



Many varieties of millet have at times been culti- 



