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117. Phalaris Canariensis. Linnaeus. 
Canary-grass. 
Panicle spiked oval; glumes wing-keeled; rudimentary flowers smooth, 
chartaceous, half tlie length of the fertile one. Annual; flowers from 
July to September. Culms eighteen inches to 2 feet high. Cultivated 
only for the seed for food of birds, the grass possessing but little nutri¬ 
ment. It is a great impoverisher of the soil. 
TRIBE X. PANICE^E. 
Spikelets two flowered, the lower imperfect; glumes and sterile paleae 
herbaceous or membranaceous ; paleae of the fertile flower of firmer tex¬ 
ture, coriaceous or chartaceous, awnless, not keeled, flattened, parallel 
with the glumes. 
GENUS 48. MILIUM. Linnaeus. 
(Latin.— Milium, millet, probably from mille, a thousand.) 
Spikelets diffusely panicled, not jointed with their pedicels; glume 
single membranceous, concave; lower flower consisting of a single palea 
resembling a glume; palea of upper flower awnless ; stamens three; stig¬ 
mas branclied-plumose ; grain not grooved, inclosed in the deciduous 
paleae. 
118. Milium Effusum. Linnaeus. 
Millet-grass. White topped millet-grass. 
Smooth; leaves broad and flat, thin ; panicle spreading; flower ovoid- 
oblong. Perennial ; flowers in June. Culms 3 to 6 feet high. 
Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and about Lake Superior. Also a native of 
Europe. Of very little value for hay. The seeds afford food for birds ; 
it has been recommended for moist places in the woods. 
Plate X.—Fig. 1. culm. 
2. panicle. 
3. flower unopened. 
4. palea. 
5. flower spread open. 
6. anther. 
7. germ and stigmas. 
