SETARIA ITALICA AND ITS IMMEDIATE ALLIES 
var. germanicum. The plate shows a long, slender, cylindrical panicle 
with long setae. The form is indeterminable, but of the Moharium 
group or quite possibly a variation of S. viridis as suggested by the 
cup-like receptacles shown in one of the detail drawings. 
(1829) Eaton, Man., ed. 5, 322 (1829) as Pennisetum germanicum 
based on Panicum germanicum Willd. What Eaton really had is 
difficult to say without seeing his specimen, but it certainly is not 
var. Hostii to which the Willdenow reference is referable as Eaton's 
description reads "spike compound compact: spikelets glomerate: 
rachis hirsute: bristles short." 
(1838) Schrader, in Linnaea 12: 430 (1838) as Setaria italica /3 
germanica. Based on Panicum germanicum Roth, a form with short 
setae which I cannot place. The other references given are Host 
Gram. 2: t. 17 [probably should be 15] which equals subvar. Metzgeri 
z.nd Trin. Icon. t. [probably 199 is meant] which as before stated is 
indeterminable. There is no description given. 
(1816-46) Baumgarten, Enum. Stirp. Magno. Transs. 3: 277 
(1816-46). References to the same page of this work are given for 
Paspalum germanicum and Pennisetum germanicum. I have not 
seen the work and do not know which one is correct or if both ccm- 
binations are given nor have I any idea to what form the citation is 
referable. 
(1847) Wood, Class-book Bot., ed. 2, 607 (1847) as Setaria ger- 
manica. There is nothing in the description to determine what form 
it applies to. The other editions of Wood are practically the same. 
(1848) Parlatore, Fl. Ital. i: 114 (1848) as Setaria germanica. 
There is nothing to determine the form. 
(1853) Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 4: 471 (1853) as Setaria italica /3 
germanica. All that can be gathered from the description and syn- 
onymy is that it treats of a form with the setae shorter than the 
spikelets. 
(1877) Doell, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2^: 165 (1877) as Panicum italicum 
var. germanicum. Based on P. germanicum Willd., but the other 
citations refer to other forms. The description commences "Setae 
longiores . . ."so that he certainly had a long-setaed form. 
(1890) Richter, PL Eur. i: 28 (1890) as Setaria italica b) ger- 
manica. Only a transfer of name based on Panicum germanicum 
Willd. and consequently referable to var. Hostii. 
(1890) Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterr. i: 46 (1890) as Setaria italica 
