432 GKAMINEJE. 



branches ; glumes of the perfoct spikelet hairy, persistent. Ann. From the East 

 Indies. Much cultivated. 



3. S. VULGARK, L. Indian Millet. 

 An annual from the Eaet Indies, is rarely <:ulti rated as acuriotity, or for the 

 seed for food for poultry. 



47. ZEA, L. Indian Corn, 



Gr. Zao, to live ; the seeds contributing eminently to the support of life. 



Monoecious. Staminate flowers in terminal paniculate 

 racemes : spikelets 2-flowered : glumes 2, herbaceous, ob- 

 tuse, subequal : palfa membranaceous, awnless, obtuse. 

 Pistillate flowers lateral, axillary, on a spadix enclosed 

 in a spathe of numerous bracts : spikelets 2-flowered, 1 

 flower abortive : GLUMES 2, very obtuse : palta awnless : 

 style 1, filiform, very long, pendulous. Seed compressed. 



Z. Mays, L. Maize. Indian Corn. 



Boot fibrous, often with aerial roots ; culm erect 5 to 15 feet high, channelhd on 

 one side, leafy ; leaves lance-linear, entire, 2 to 3 feet long. Annual. Native of the 

 •warm latitudes of America. Very extensively cultivated througboutthe temperate 

 and toirid zones. Varieties numerous. 



48. COIX, Linn. Job's Tear, 



Koix, a palm-leaved tree. 



Staminate flowers, in remote spikes ; glumes 2-flcw- 

 ered, awuless. Sty'LE 2 -parted. Seed covered with the 

 bone-like calyx. 



C. LAcnRYMA, L. Jul' s- Tear. 



Culm semi-terete above; Jlowen naked; fruit ovate. June. Ann. -A curiou* 

 'gross, oft.n cultivated fcr its tteds.. which mi-ch reveille Ueds. 



