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13. Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. Foxtail millet. (Fig. 1580.) 

 Cultivated form of S. viridis, more robust, with broader blades and 

 larger lobed panicles, the fruit smooth or nearly so, shining at matur- 

 ity, falling away from the remainder of the spikelet. In the larger 

 forms the culms may be as much as 1 cm thick and the panicles as 

 much as 30 cm long and 3 cm thick, yellow or purple; bristles from 

 scarcely longer than the spikelets to 3 to 4 times as long ; fruit tawny 

 to red, brown, or black. The smaller forms are known as Hungarian 

 grass, o — Cultivated in the warmer parts of 

 the United States, especially from Nebraska to 

 Texas; escaped from cultivation in waste places 

 throughout the United States; Eurasia. 



Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth. Decumbent 

 annual; blades thin, lightly plicate, 1 to 2.5 cm 

 wide; panicles narrow, loose; bristles 5 to 10 mm 

 long, o — Ballast, Apalachicola and Miami, 

 Fla.; adventive from East Indies. 



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Figure 1580.— Setaria italica, 

 X 1; floret, X 5. (Williams82, 

 D.C.) 



Figure 1581.— Setaria palmifolia, X 1. (Hitchcock 9727, Jamaica.) 



Setaria palmifolia (Willd.) Stapf. Palmgrass. (Fig. 1581.) Tall peren- 

 nial; blades plicate, as much as 50 cm long and 6 cm wide; panicle loose, 20 to 

 40 cm long; bristles inconspicuous. % — Cultivated in the South and in 

 greenhouses for ornament. (Sometimes called Panicum plicatum.) Native of 

 India. , . 



Setaria poiretiana (Schult.) Kunth. Differing from S. palmifolia m having 

 a narrow panicle about 30 cm long with numerous ascending branches. % — 

 Occasionally cultivated for ornament. (Sometimes called Panicum sulcatum.) 

 Tropical America. The last three species belong to the section Ptychophyllum. 



