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spreading branches, unbranclied for half of their length, or more. 
Spikelets i inch long. Glumes pale green, rather dim, with numerous 
very minute rounded points on their surface, and 3 faint ribs. Outer 
pale a little shorter than the glume, ultimately hard, shining, and 
yellowish. Anthers yellow. 
Plant with much the habit of the lax-panicled species of the genus 
Panic um, to which some authors think Milium allied, considering 
that the lower glume is wanting, and what is here described as the 
lower glume is really the upper glume, and the apparent upper glume 
is the solitary pale of a neuter floret. 
Wood Millet Grass. 
French, Millet etaU. German, Ge,n>u,ic>' FIaftri-r,r>i.^. 
When transplanted, however, it will thrive and grow in open exposed situations. 
Birds are remarkably fond of the seeds ; and near game covers a better grass cannot 
Tribe X.— AVENE.E. 
Spikelets open during flowering, arranged in a lax open panicle 
or rarely in a cylindrical or ovoid spikelike panicle, cylindrical or slightly 
laterally compressed, each containing commonly 2 or 3 perfect florets, 
sometimes the upper one neuter, and very rarely the lowest one male ; 
rarely there are 4 to 9 perfect florets. Glumes usually as long or 
longer than the florets. Pales herbaceous or scarious, the lower one 
rounded or keeled on the back, often ultimately indurated, with a 
dorsal awn which is commonly twisted and bent. St}ie very short or 
absent; stigmas 2, protruded at the base of the florets between the 
margins of the pales, or rarely included. Caryops dorsally compressed 
and furrowed, or slightly laterally compressed, and without a furrow. 
GENUS XX///.— C O R Y N E P H O R U S. Pal.de Beam. 
Spikelets stalked, arranged in a rather compact panicle with short 
branches which are spreading only during the time of flowering, 
slightlv laterally oomj^ressed, biconvex, open during [lowering, each 
containing 2 perfect florets, the lower one sessile, the upper one stalked. 
Glumes 2^ nearly equal, longer than the florets, keeled, pointed but 
not awned, scarious. Pules 2, unc'<[u:il, scarious. tiie L^wer one con- 
the middle and slightly davate in the ui>per portion, au<l with a ring 
of hairs surrounding the articulation; upper pale H-toothed at the 
