SETARIA ITALICA AND ITS IMMEDIATE ALLIES 
Range. — Cultivated; specimens probably escapes, seen from On- 
tario, Canada; from Massachusetts, New York, Michigan and Texas 
in the United States and from Russia, British India and the Philip- 
pines. 
Setaria ITALICA (L.) Beauv. subsp. stramineofructa Hubb. 
forma breviseta (Doell) comb. nov. Panicum italicum var. brevisetum 
Doell, Rhein. Fl. 128 (1843): Doell, Fl. Grossherz. Bad. i: 233 (1857) 
[excl. Host reference]: Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. Handb. Getreideb. 
1:274(1885): Wern. in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 2: 893 (1885). P. italicum 
var. inerme Doell, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2^: 165 (1877) cf. Kornicke, in 
Korn. & Wern. 1. c. i : 274 (1885). P. brevisetum Doell, in Mart. 1. c. 
2^: 165 (1877) in syn. sub P. italicum var. inerme. P. italicum var. 
brevisetum subvar. insigne Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. i: 274 
(1885) : Wern. in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 2: 894 (1885). P. italicum var. 
brevisetum subvar. maximum Kornicke, ex Wern. in Korn. & Wern. I.e. 
2: 894 (1885). Setaria glomerato-spicata Hort. ex Kornicke, in Korn. 
& Wern. 1. c. i: 274 (1885) in syn. sub P. italicum var. brevisetum. 
5. italica sibirica Hort. ex Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. i: 274 
(1885) in syn. sub P. italicum var. brevisetum. 
Differs from the subspecies in having the setae shorter than the 
spikelets or barely exceeding them. 
Range. — Specimens seen from West Virginia and British India, 
also cultivated specimens from Massachusetts and Washington, 
District of Columbia. 
Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. subsp. stramineofructa Hubb. 
subvar. germanica (Mill.) comb. nov. Panicum germanicum Mill. 
Gard. Diet., ed. 8, Panicum no. i (1768). Pennisetum macrochaeton 
Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 3: 36, t. 25 (1815-20). Panicum italicum Var. B 
Metzger, Eur. Cereal. 63, t. 19, f. B (1824). Setaria macrochaeta 
(Jacq.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. i: 305 (1825): Kunth, Enum. PI. i: 152 
(1833) [as to name and syn.]. Panicum italicum var. praecox Alef. 
Landw. Fl. 315 (1866) : Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. Handb. Getreideb. 
i: 276, t. 8, f. 41 (1885). P. italicum var. macrochaetum (Jacq.) A. 
Br. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1871: 4 (1871): Doell, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
2^: 165 (1877) [as to name, perhaps not as to plant]. Chaetochloa 
italica germanica (Mill.) Scribn. U. S. Div. Agrost. Bull. 6: 32 (1897): 
Scribn. & Merr. U. S. Div. Agrost. Bull. 21: 21 (1900) [as to name, 
possibly subvar. Metzgeri as to plant]. Panicum italicum stirps 
germanicum (Mill.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth. Fl. Tirol. 6^: 158 (1906) 
[as to name, excl. syn. S. germanica Beauv.]. 
