Manual of the grasses of the united states 547 

 fertile lemma and palea subhyaline toward summit. Perennials 



Figure 1148.— Hydrochloa caroliniensis. Plant, X X A; two views of pistillate spikelet and staminate 

 spikelet, X 5. (Nash 1152, Fla.) 



with slender, branching, decumbent culms and narrow many-flowered 

 panicles, with capillary branchlets and pedicels. 

 Type species, Melinis minutiflora. Name from 

 Greek meline, millet. 



1. Melinis minutiflora Beauv. Molasses 

 grass. (Fig. 1151.) Culms ascending from 

 a tangled much branched base, as much as 1 m 

 tall; the foliage viscid-pubescent; blades flat, 5 

 to 15 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide; panicle 10 to 

 20 cm long, purplish; spikelets about 2 mm 

 long, the sterile lemma 2-lobed, with a delicate awn 1 to 10 mm long 

 from between the lobes. % — Introduced from Brazil, though 



Figure 1149. — Distribution of 

 Hydrochloa caroliniensis. 



