479 
Culms simple or branched from the base, growing in close tufts ; 
panicle contracted, few-flowered, simple; leaves narrowly linear, elon¬ 
gated, extending above the culms ; spikelets small, oval-obovate, pedun¬ 
culate, rather acute, smoothish ; lower glume ovate, one-third the length 
of the nine-nerved upper one. Perennial; flowers in June. Culms 8 to 
15 inches high. Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and about Lake 
Superior. 
133. Panicum Longisetum. Torrey. • 
[Am. Tour of Science, vol. iv. p. 58.] 
Culm terete, smooth ; leaves lanceolate, very large, (about] an inch 
broad,) sub-glau*ous ; spike compound, panicle-like, dense, clandestine 
at base, somewhat nodding; spikelets alternate and opposite, three- 
flowered ; lower glume very small; the others unequal, ovate acuminate, 
hispid, each terminated by a long awn ; (1 and ^ to 3 inches in length.) 
Perennial; flowers in August. Culms eighteen inches high. On the 
banks of the Fox [Neenali] river, &c. (D. B. Douglass.) 
134. Panicum Nervosum. Muhlenberg. < 
Culms simple, smooth at the nodes ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, smooth, 
a little ciliate on the margin, cordate at the base, an inch wide, with 
'short sheaths ; panicle much branched, smooth, many-flowered, pedun¬ 
culate or sessile, branches flexuous, somewhat spreading ; spikelets 
oblong ; abortive flower staminate. Perennial; flowers in June. Culms 
1 to 2 feet high. Illinois and Michigan. Perhaps not distinct from P. 
latifolium. 
135. Panicum Miliaceum. Linnoeus. 
Svn. —P. milium, Pers. Millet. 
Panicle large, open, nodding; leaves lanceolate; sheaths hairy; glumes 
aouminate-mucronate. Annual; 1 to 2 feet high. Occasionally culti- 
rated in Wisconsin and Michigan. A native of Turkey. 
Prof. Emmons, in his very valuable report on the Agriculture of the 
State of New York,* gives several analyses of Millet, but whether of this 
species or some of the numerous other plants known by the same name 
is not stated. He adds that “its analysis shows that it is an exhausting 
* In Yol. 2, page 134. 
