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^ - more or less geniculate, branched towards the 
ing, 3 to 18 inches high. Leaves 1 to 6 inches 
loi'- ^ i :i jh broad, lively green with a paler midrib, with 
rather distant scabrous ribs and strongly scabrous margins. Ligule 
composed of a tuft of hairs. Panicle ^ to 3 inches long. Bristles ^ 
to }j inch long. Spikelets ^ inch long. " 
Green Bristle- Grass. 
This grass grows on sandy soils in some districts, and is in some countries a 
troublesome weed. It produces abundance of seed, of whicli small birds are Tery 
SPECIES II.— S ETARIA VERTICILLATA. Pal. de Beo vr. 
Plate MDCXCIV. 
Eekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. I. Tab. CLXXXVIII. Fig. 511. 
JiiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsiec. No. 1974. 
Panicuni verticillatum, Linn. S>u. Engl. Bot. ed. i. Xo. 874. 
Panicle spikelike, cylindrical, rather dense, interrupted and broken 
up into whorls at the base, not lobcd. Bristles of each spikelet 1 to 4, 
but commonly 2, equalhng or slightly exceeding the spikelet, but 
never twice as long, rough with prickles pointing backward, green, 
often tinged with purple. Upper glume as long as the fertile floret. 
Upper pale of the male floret one-third the length of the lower, which 
about equals the fertile floret; pales of the fertile floret equal, finely 
punctured, but not transversely wrinkled. 
In cultivated tields in Surrey and Norfolk, but scarcely sufficiently 
well established to be included in the British lists. Indeed I have 
heard of no well-authenticated notice of its occurrence, except a.s a 
weed in Chelsea Botanical Garden, since Battersea Fields were con- 
verted into Ikttersea Park. 
[England.] Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Very similar to S. viridis, but taller and more slender, usually 1 to 
2 feet high, the stems commonly more geniculate at the base, so that 
a single plant occupies a larger space than one of S- viridis. Leaves 
more distant, and commonly narrower. Panicle more slender, and 
Avhen in fruit less compact, and the lower part of it has almost ahvavs 
some of the whorls slicrhtb' -eparatcd from each other and from the 
rest of the puni.jle. TiVe bristles arc shorter and fewer, but the most 
srrikiiis: ditterenoe lic-s in the teeth of the bristles, whicli point back- 
wards.'and cau.e the panicle of S. verticillata to feel rough when 
<lr.*iwn tlirough the hand downward-. 
lU'Wfh Brl^fJe Grns.^. 
