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Wrt woods. Aug. Culm 2 to 4 feet high, slender, branched, erect or decumbent. 

 •Leaves linear-lanceolate, rough. Panicle terminal, at length much exscrted. 



2. ZIZANIA, Gronov. Wild Rice. 



G r. Zi:anion. the ancient name of eome wild grass. 



Flowers monoecious, the staminate and pistillate in 1* 

 flowered spikelets in the same panicle. Glumes none, or 

 only rudimentary. Pale^e 2, herbaceous, concave, awnless 

 in the sterile. Stamens 6. -Stigmas pencil-form. — Large 

 and of tin reel- like Water- grasses, with the spikelets jointed with the 

 clavate pedicels, very deciduous. 



1. Z. AQUATICA, L. Indian Rice. Water Oats. 



Panicle pyramidal; the lower branches spreading and staminate. the upper erect 

 and pistillate: pedicels strongly club-shaped ; lower palece long-awued, rough; stylet 

 distinct. 



Swampy borders of streams and in shallow water. Aug. Ann. Culm ?> to 9 

 feetl _ , ti>. smooth. Z«a«M 2 to 3 feet long, linear-lanceolate. Panicle 



terminal, a foot or more long. Grain linear, sknder, }/£ inch long ; gathered for 

 food by the North-western Indians. 



2. Z. MILIACEA, Michx. Millet-like Water-Rice. 



Panidc diffuse, pyramidal; staminate and pistillate flowers intermixed; atont 

 short; styles united; grain ovate. 



Swamps. c!U\ Aug. Per. Culm erect, 6 to 10 feet high. Leaves involute, very 

 long, narrow, glaucous. Panicle terminal, large. 



3. ALOPECURUS, Linn. Fox-tail Grass. 



Gr. alrpvx, a fox, and oura, tail ; in allusion to the form of the spike. 



Spikelets 1-fiowered. Glumes 2, boat- shaped, and 

 keeled, nearly equal, united at the base, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the lower palece, which is awned on the back below the 

 middle; uppor palese none. Stamens 3. Styles mostly 

 united : stigmas long and feathered.— Panicle ?piked } cylui- 

 dric, terminal. 



A. ARISTULATUS, Michx. Wild Water-Foxtail. 



Glaucous; paUoz rather longer than the obtuse glumes, which are wedge-shaped 

 at the base, and haiFy on the back and margin; awns twice as long as the flower; 

 anthers oblong. 



Wet meadows, rare. June, Aug. Per. Cidm 12 to 18 inches high, ascending, 

 Time-jointed at the base, tniooih, terete. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very acute. 

 Spike nearly 2 inches long, pale. 



4. PHLEUM, Linn. Timothy. 



An ancient Greek name. 



Glumes 2, much longer than the paleae, distinct, equal, 

 boat-shaped, beaked or mucronate. Palece 2 ; included in 

 T2 



