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Marshes and wet places along the coast, eastern United States, 
West Indies, Costa Rica. 
Brermupa: Munro in 1864. The species is not known to grow in 
Bermuda now. 
JAMAICA: Black River, Hitchcock 9646. 
Puerto Rico: Campo Alegre, Chase 6800. Without locality, 
Eggers 709. 
Winpwarp Istanps: Martinique, Duss 3918. 
12. Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 51, 178. 1812. 
GREEN BRISTLEGRASS. 
Pamcum viride L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 870. 1759. Europe. 
Chamaeraphis viridis Millsp., Fl. W. Va. 466. 1892. 
Izxophorus viridis Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 423. 1895. 
Chaetochloa viridis Scribn.,U. S. 
Dept. Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 4: 39. 
1897. 
Annual, sometimes geniculate- 
spreading; culms 20 to 50 cm tall; 
blades fiat, usually less than 15 cm 
long, commonly less than 1 cm 
wide; panicle densely flowered, green 
or purple, tapering a little at the 
summit (the smaller ones ovate), 
5 to 10 cm long, commonly 5 to 8 
mm thick (excluding bristles) ; 
bristles 1 to 3 below each spikelet, 
mostly three to four times as 
long as the spikelet; spikelets 2 to 
2.6 mm long, elliptic, not much 
turgid on the convex side; fertile 
lemma finely transversely wrinkled. 
Cultivated soil and waste ground, 
temperate regions of both hemi- K 
spheres, rare in the Tropics; intro- |! 
duced in America. FIGURE 315.—Setaria magna, X 1 (Nash 1279). 
BrermMupa: Collins 159, 160. 
SETARIA ITALICA (L.) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 51, 170, 178. 1812. 
The common millet, differing from S. viridis in the larger size, the 
panicle often lobed or interrupted, is said by Grisebach ® to be 
naturalized in Jamaica. In the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden is a specimen from Martinique (Duss 1315). 
13. Setaria corrugata Schult., Mant. 2: 276. 1824. 
homo .corrugaum Ell... Bots).S..C. and Ga. 12:,113., 1816. 
Georgia. 
Chamaeraphis corrugata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 770. 1891. 
Chaetochloa corrugata Scribn., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 
AS LOOK. 
Chaetochloa hispida Scribn. and Merr., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. 
Agrost. Bull. 21: 25. f. 13. 1900. Cuba, Wright in 1865. 
Setaria hispida Schum., Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 28 1: 417. 1902. 
8 Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 554. 1864. 
