. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GEISTEEA OF GEASSE3 OF THE TJlSnTED STATES. 213 the Tropics for forage. It has been tried in the warmer parts of the South. Molasses grass is a rather stout perennial, with viscid-pubes- cent foliage, and narrow many-flowered panicles of very small awned Fig. 127.—Hydrochloa caroUnensifs. Plant, X J ; two views of pistillate apikelet, X 5 ; stamina te spikelet, X 5. 12. PANICEAE. THE MIIXET TBIBE. 108. Ajtthaexantia Beauv.* Spikelets obovoid; first glume wanting; second glume and sterile lemma about equal i


. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GEISTEEA OF GEASSE3 OF THE TJlSnTED STATES. 213 the Tropics for forage. It has been tried in the warmer parts of the South. Molasses grass is a rather stout perennial, with viscid-pubes- cent foliage, and narrow many-flowered panicles of very small awned Fig. 127.—Hydrochloa caroUnensifs. Plant, X J ; two views of pistillate apikelet, X 5 ; stamina te spikelet, X 5. 12. PANICEAE. THE MIIXET TBIBE. 108. Ajtthaexantia Beauv.* Spikelets obovoid; first glume wanting; second glume and sterile lemma about equal in length, broad, .)-nerved, villous, the sterile lemma with a small palea and sometimes with a staminate flower; fertile lemma cartilaginous, boat shaped, 3-nerved, subacute, chest- 1 For a discussion of thin and the following genera of this tribe, see Chase, Proc. EioL Hoc. Washington, I»: 183-192, 1906; 21:1-10, 1908; 21:175-188, 1908; 24:103-160 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.


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