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PANICUM CRUS-GALLI. 



Linnsus. J. E. Smith. Hooker and Arnott. Lindlet. 



Koch. Willdenow. Knapp. Curtis. Graves. Sciirader. Hudson 



Leers. Ehrhart. Withering. Hull. 



plate xxx. b. 



Panicum vulgare, Gerarde. 



Echinochloa crus-galli, Beauvois. Parnell. Babinoton. 



" " Reichenbach. 



Oplismenus " Kunth. 



The Loose Panicle Grass. 



Pauicum — Bread. Crus-galli — p 



Panicum, Linnaus. — The Patrick Grass, named after the Latin Pants — 

 bread, from the circumstance that the seeds of some of the species are 

 made into bread. Spikelets flat in front, and rounded on the back. There 

 is only one British species, Panicum crus-galli. 



A handsome interesting species, although a strong coarse- 

 growing plant, growing in damp situations, and of no agricultural 

 use. There seems to be some doubt as to whether it is strictly 

 British. 



Found on waste land near Thetford, Norfolk; in fields near 

 London. In Hampshire and Surrey. 



A native of France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, 

 Holland, Norway, Sweden, north of Africa, and the United 

 States of America. 



Stem upright, smooth, and striated, having three or four broad, 

 pointed, ribbed (with marginal dentations) leaves, and smooth 



