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The only other specimen examined is also from the vicinity of Culiacan, Sinaloa; 
Copradia, Brandegee 4 in 1904. 
SG 380. Panicum miliaceum L. 
Panicum miliaceum L. Sp. Pl. 58. 1753. ‘‘Habitat in India” is the only citation 
given. We have not seen the type, which may not be in existence. 
Milium panicum Mill. Gard. Dict. no. 1. 1759 Based on Panicum miliaceum L. 
Milium esculentum Moench, Meth. Pl. 203. 1794. Based on Panicum miliaceum L. 
Panicum milium Pers. Syn. Pl. 1:83. 1805. Based on P. miliaceum L. the original 
description of which is copied but very slightly augmented. 
Panicum asperrimum Fisch.; Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 46. pl. 31. 1815-1820. The 
description is based on a specimen grown in the garden of the University at Vienna 
from seed received from Count Razoumovsky of Gorenki [near Moscow]. This name 
was earlier listed by Fischer¢ without description. We have not seen the type, but 
_ Jacquin’s description and plate identify the species. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Plants erect or decumbent at base, usually branching from the basal nodes, 20 em. 
to as much as 1 meter high; culms stout, hispid below the pubescent nodes or glab- 
rous; sheaths loose, sometimes 
longer than the internodes, 
papillose-hispid; blades dry- 
ing yellowish green, more or 
less pilose on both surfaces, or 
glabrate, as much as 30 cm. 
long and 2cm. wide, rounded 
at base, gradually narrowed 
to the apex; panicles usually 
more or less included at base, 
10 to 30 cm. long, more or less 
nodding, usually rather com- 
pact, the numerous branches 
narrowly ascending, very 
scabrous, spikelet-bearing to- 
ward thesummit; spikelets4.5 
to5 mm. long, ovate, acumi- 
nate, strongly many-nerved; 
first glume half the length of the spikelet or more, acuminate; second glume and 
sterile lemma subequal, a small palea in the sterile floret; fruit 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide, elliptic, stramineous to reddish brown. 
Fic. 54.—P. miliaceum. From Griffith’s no. 6490, East Himalaya. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Waste places, introduced from the Old World. Cultivated under the name of 
broomcorn millet or hog millet. Scattered specimens, introduced or escaped from 
cultivation, are found in all the cooler parts of the United States, especially eastward. 
Cultivated specimens may be larger than indicated in the above description, while in 
dry soil depauperate specimens occur. 
Marne: Orono, Harvey in 1897. 
Vermont: Burlington, Brainerd in 1895 (Gray Herb.). 
MassacuuseErts: Essex County, Conant in 1880. 
@ Cat. Hort. Gorenk. ed. 2. 3. 1812. 
