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the Tropics for forage. It has been tried in the warmer parts of the 
South. Molasses grass is a rather stout perennial, with viscid-pubes- 
cent foliage, and narrow many-flowered panicles of very small 
awned spikelets. 
Fig. 127. — Hydrochloa carolinensis. Plant, X h two views of pistillate spikelet, X 5 ; 
stamina te spikelet, X 5. 
12. PANICEAE, THE MILLET TRIBE. 
108. Anthaenantia Beauv. 1 
Spikelets obovoid; first glume wanting; second glume and sterile 
lemma about equal in length, broad, 5-nerved, villous, the sterile 
lemma with a small palea and sometimes with a staminate flower; 
fertile lemma cartilaginous, boat shaped, 3-nerved, subacute, chest- 
1 For a discussion of this and the following genera of this tribe, see Chase, Proc. BioL 
Soc. Washington, 19:183-192, 1906; 21:1-10, 1908; 21: 175-188, 1908; 24: 103-160, 
1911. 
