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surrounded by an involucre of bristles (abortive spikelets) and 
falling away from it. Glumes 2, awnless ; lower one small, 
upper as long as the spikelet. Lower Jloret as long as the 
upper, barren and triandrous or neuter: glumellas 1 — 2; outer 
one with the texture of the upper glume and as long. Upper 
jloret perfect: glumellas 2; outer the largest, cartilaginous, en- 
veloping the caryopsis. — Named from seta, a bristle. — To this 
genus the true Millets belong. 
1. S. *verticilldia Beauv. (rough B.) ; panicle lobed below 
branches whorled, bristles of the involucre rough with reversed 
teeth, outer glumella of the fruit nearly even, lower floret neuter 
with 1 glumella. Parn. Gr. t. 69. Panicum L. : E. B. t. 874. 
In cultivated fields, about London and Norwich. 0. 7, 8. 
2. S. * viridis Beau v. (green B.) ; panicle continuous, bris- 
1 ties of the involucre rough with erect teeth, outer glumella of 
i the fruit nearly even, lower floret neuter with one glumella. 
Parn. Gr. t. 68. Panicum L. : E. B. t. 875. 
Fields about London, Thetford, and Norwich. ©. 7, 8. 
3. S. *glauca Beauv. (glaucous B.); panicle continuous, 
bristles of the involucre rough with erect teeth, outer glumella 
of the fruit conspicuously wavy wrinkled transversely, lower 
floret triandrous with 2 glumellas. 
Weybridge, Surrey: Mr. Borrer. Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Q. 
9. — Culm ascending, branched, angled under the inflorescence. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, bearded at the base. Spikelets about 2 in each in- 
I volucre, and only half its length ; bristles many, rigid. Lower jloret 
with 3 stamens and 2 glumellas. Distinguished by the shorter and 
: more rigid bristles and larger spikelets from S. penicillata, which, 
along with S'. Italica, will, we have no doubt, be also found ere long 
1 in our cultivated fields. 
*** Spikelets with 3 or more , occasionally with only 2, fertile 
flowers. Glumes 2. (Tab. VII. f. 23— 26, and VIII. 
f. 27— 31.) (Gen. 26— 34.) 
f Styles short. Stigmas much thicker and often longer than the 
styles. 
26. Poa Linn. Meadow-grass. (Tab. VII. f. 23.) 
Panicle lax or contracted, rarely a simple or compound spike. 
Spikelets awnless, ovate or linear and compressed, or subcylin- 
drical, with 3 or more (rarely 2) fertile florets. Glumes 2, 
, more or less membranous and unequal, shorter than the florets. 
Glumellas 2 herbaceous ; outer one subovate, bluntisli, rarely 
tipped with a minute point. Caryopsis free. — Name : ~oa, grass 
or pasturage, from Train, to feed; the whole genus affording an 
abundant pasturage for cattle. 
