F. TRACY HUBBARD 
Differs from the subpsecies as follows, — plant usually more slender 
and often not so tall; leaves in general shorter and narrower; panicle 
variable in size, 1.8 to 13 cm. long, 8 to 15 mm. in diameter, dense or 
very slightly lobulate at the base, occasionally one or two small inter- 
rupted lobes, lanceolate-ellipsoid to elongate-cylindrical; setae notice- 
ably longer than the spikelets. The extreme small forms are some- 
times only I dm. tall and have panicles very closely resembling 
S. viridis. 
Range. — Commonly cultivated; specimens — escapes or adven- 
titious — seen from various parts of the United States, from Europe, 
Russia in Asia, British India, China and the Philippines and from 
Japan. 
Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. subsp. stramineofructa Hubb. 
subvar. germanica (Mill.) Hubb. forma mitis (Alef.) comb. nov. 
Panicum italiciim Var. E Metzger, Eur. Cereal. 64, t. 17, f. B (1824). 
P. italicum var. mitis Alef. Landw. Fl. 316 (1866) : Kornicke, in Korn. 
& Wern. Handb. Getreideb. i: 277, t. 8, f. 42 (1885) [spelling e- 
mended var. mite]: Wern. in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 2: 898 (1885). 
Differs from the subvariety only in having the setae shorter than 
or barely exceeding the spikelets. 
Range. — A single specimen from Quebec, Canada, also one from 
France and one from China. 
A somewhat digitately forked form of subsp. stramineofructa is 
described and pictured by Rumphius, Herb. Amboin. 5: 202, t. 75, 
f. 2 (1750) and is also spoken of by Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 
Handb. Getreideb. i: 278 (1885). This form is represented by the 
following specimen from Texas, Nealley in 1886 in U. S. Nat. Herb. 
Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. subsp. stramineofructa Hubb. 
var. Hostii nom. nov. Panicum italicum Host, Ic. Gram. Austr. 4: 8 
in part, t. 14 (1809) [the text covers much more than this form; the 
plate is an excellent representation of the form]. P. germanicum 
Willd. Sp. PI. i: 336 (1797) fide description of specimen in Will- 
denow's Herbarium and fragment of the same. Setaria italica ^ 
germanica (Willd.) Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 4: 471 (1853) [as to name]: 
Richter, PI. Eur. i: 28 (1890): Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterr. i: 46 
(1890) [excl. syn. var. brevisetum Doell]. Panicum italicum var. 
macrochaetum Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. Handb. Getreideb. i : 273 
(1885) [as to plant and descr., not as to syn.]. 
Differs from the subspecies principally in having purple setae: 
