. 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. i66 GRAMINEAE. Vol. German or hungarian millet. 5. Chaetochloa italica (L.) Scribn. Italian Millet. Hungarian Grass. Fig. 394. Panicum italicum L. Sp. PI. 56. 1753. Setaria italica R. & S. Syst. 2: 493. 1817. Chamaeraphis italica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 768. 1891. Ixophorus italicus Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 423. 1895. C. italica Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep
. 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. i66 GRAMINEAE. Vol. German or hungarian millet. 5. Chaetochloa italica (L.) Scribn. Italian Millet. Hungarian Grass. Fig. 394. Panicum italicum L. Sp. PI. 56. 1753. Setaria italica R. & S. Syst. 2: 493. 1817. Chamaeraphis italica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 768. 1891. Ixophorus italicus Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 423. 1895. C. italica Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 4: 39. 1897. Culms erect, 2°-$° tall. Sheaths smooth or scabrous; blades 6'-i° or more in length, \'-i¥ wide, generally sca- brous ; spikes 4'-a/ long, ¥-2' thick, usually very compound; spikelets about ii" long, elliptic, equalled or exceeded by the upwardly barbed generally purplish bristles; first scale less than one-half as long as the spikelet, 1-3-nerved; second and third 5-7-nerved; fourth scale equalling or somewhat exceeding the second, finely and faintly trans- verse-rugose, or pitted, striate, only moderately convex; palet of third scale minute or wanting. In waste places, escaped from cultivation, Quebec to Minne- sota, south to Florida and Texas. Native of the Old World. Golden or cat-tail millet. July-Sept. 6. Chaetochloa magna (Griseb.) Scribn. Giant Foxtail-grass. Fig. 395. Setaria magna Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 554. 1864. C. magna Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 4: 39- 1897. Culms4°-i6° tall, stout; sheaths densely hirsute on the margins, otherwise glabrous; blades up to 3° long, 1'-2' wide, very rough on both surfaces; panicles 8'-2° long, i'-2i' thick, nodding above; spikelets 1" long, the first scale about i as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, the second scale as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, the fourth scale oval, very acute, smooth and shining. In swamps, Delaware and Virginia to Florida and Texas; also in Cuba. July
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