. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. 2. Echinochloa colona (L.) Link. Jungle Rice. Fig. 309. Panicum colonum L. Syst. Ed. 10, 870. 1759- Panicum Walteri Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 115. 1817. Not Pursh, 1814. Echinochloa colona Link, Hort. Berol. 2: 209. 1833. Culms tufted, smooth and glabrous, 6'-2i° tall, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. Sheaths com- pressed, u
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. 2. Echinochloa colona (L.) Link. Jungle Rice. Fig. 309. Panicum colonum L. Syst. Ed. 10, 870. 1759- Panicum Walteri Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 115. 1817. Not Pursh, 1814. Echinochloa colona Link, Hort. Berol. 2: 209. 1833. Culms tufted, smooth and glabrous, 6'-2i° tall, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. Sheaths com- pressed, usually crowded; blades flat, l'-f long, i"-4" wide; inflorescence composed of 3-18 i-sided more or less spreading dense racemes, i'-ij' long, disposed along a 3-angled rachis and generally somewhat exceeding the length of the inter- nodes; spikelets single, in pairs, or in 3^ in 2 rows on one side of the hispidulous triangular rachis, obovate, pointed, the first scale about one-half as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, the second and third scales a little more than 1" long, awn- less, s-nerved, hispid on the nerves, the fourth scale cuspidate. Fields and roadsides, Virginia to Kansas, south to Florida and Texas. Common in all tropical countries. March-Sept. 3. Echinochloa Waited (Pursh) Nash. Salt- marsh Cockspur-grass. Fig. 310. Panicum hirtellum Walt. Fl. Car. 72. 1788. Not All. 1785- Panicum Walteri Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 66. 1814. Panicum hispidum Muhl. Gram. 107. 1817. Panicum Crus-galli var. hispidum Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2: 424. 1843- • ,„ Echinochloa Walteri Nash, in Britton, Man. 78. 1901. Culms 3°-6° tall, robust, smooth. Sheaths, at least the lower ones, papillose-hispid; blades 1° or more long, i'-i' wide, generally smooth beneath, strongly scabrous above; panicle 6'-i8' long, consisting of 10-40 ascending or spreading branches; spikelets ovate- lanceolate, densely crowded in 2-4 rows on one side of the scabrous and hispid rachis, brownish purple; se
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