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97. Stipa. 10. GRAMINEiE. Pl.end.ph 
Stipa pennata. Feathered feather-grass. 
Lower spathellule smooth at bottom. 
Gramen sparteum pennatum, Dillen in Raii Syn. 395, 3. 
Stipa pennata, Lin. S. P. 1 15. 
Limestone rocks ; perennial; July. A doubtful native. 
Foots in tufts ; culm not branched, 1 foot high, upright, 
without joints ; leaves involute, bristlelike ; ligula lanceo- 
late; locustce 4 or 5, very large; awn 6 to 10 in. long, 
acute, angular; hairs soft, pellucid. 
H. Panice je. Rachis spiked or panicled ; locust ce soli- 
tary, or many in pairs, 1 -flowered ; jlowrets 1 barren, or 
unisexual ; spathellules often stronger than the spathelles, 
more or less cartilaginous ; lower spathellule semi-involute, 
awnless or rarely awned, not keeled ; stigmata 2. 
a. Locustce \-Jlowered , hermaphrodite . 
LVII. 98. MILIUM. Pliny. Millet . 
Spathelles herbaceous, longer than the spathellules, 
lower largest; spathellules leathery, hardened, placed some- 
what contrary to the spathelles ; lodicule lanceolate, not 
nicked, bald; ovary 2-cut; style 2 parted; stigmata , asper- 
gilliform ; cariopsis free, 2-horned, wrapped in the persist- 
ing spathellules, not furrowed. Panicle branched, loose. 
Millium effusum . Loose millet . 
Locustce ovate, spreading; spathelles bald ; panicle semi- 
verticillate. 
Gramen miliaceum, Raii Syn. 402, I ; Ger. em. 6. 
Gramen miliaceum vulgare, Park. 1153. 
Milium effusum, Lin. S. P. 90. 
Agrostis effusa, Lamarck Enc. Meth . 1,59. 
Millet grass. 
Damp woods; perennial; June and July. 
Root rather creeping ; cidm upright, 3 feet high ; leaves 
long, dark green, drooping ; sheaths bald, round ; ligula 
obtuse, torn; panicle large, pyramidical, few-flowered; 
peduncles naked below far up, becoming reflexed; pedicells 
thickened ; locustce small, green ; herb odoriferous while 
drying. 
