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rounded on the back, dorsally com- 

 pressed, in fruit becoming indurate, 

 smooth and shining, the margins en- 

 closing the lemma as in Panicum. 

 Moderately tall grasses with flat 

 blades and open panicles. Type 



species, Milium effusum. Milium, old 

 Latin name for millet. 



1. Milium effusum L. (Fig. 624.) 

 Smooth perennial, somewhat suc- 

 culent; culms slender, erect from a 

 bent base, 1 to 1.5 m. tall; blades 

 mostly 10 to 20 cm. long, flat, lax, 

 8 to 15 mm. wide; panicle 10 to 20 

 cm. long, the slender branches in 

 remote spreading or drooping pairs 

 or fascicles, naked below; spikelets 

 pale, 3 to 3.5 mm. long; glumes 

 scaberulous. % — Damp or rocky 

 woods, Quebec and Nova Scotia to 

 Minnesota, south to Maryland and 

 Illinois; Eurasia. A handsome grass, 

 sometimes cultivated as an annual. 



Figure 624. — Milium effusum. Plant, X 14 ; spikelet 

 and floret, X 5. (Phillips, Maine.) 



