. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PANICULARIA PANSY 1203 branches long and spreading: spikelets 4-7-fid., 2-3 lines long: flowering glumes llinelong. North America. — Good for planting in wet places for the margins of aquatic gardens, etc. nervata, Kuntze [GJyceria nervdta, Trin., also Hort.). Nerved Manna-Grass. Lower aud more slender (1-3 ft.
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PANICULARIA PANSY 1203 branches long and spreading: spikelets 4-7-fid., 2-3 lines long: flowering glumes llinelong. North America. — Good for planting in wet places for the margins of aquatic gardens, etc. nervata, Kuntze [GJyceria nervdta, Trin., also Hort.). Nerved Manna-Grass. Lower aud more slender (1-3 ft. high), erect, glabrous: Ivs. much smaller (2-3 lines widej: panicle 3-8 in. long, greenish, its branches long and spreading: spikelets 3-7-fld., 1-1/^ lines long; flowering glumes three-fourths of a line long. North America.—A graceful native grass growing in damp ground or shady places. k;_ ji, "Wiegand. PANICFM (old Latin name of Italian millet, Setaria Italica, said to be derived from paniculuniy a panicle; alluding to the usual form of the inflorescence). G-raminece-. An immense genus of grasses scattered over the world, especially in the tropics. Several hun- dred species have been described, while conservative authorities place the number at about 300. Several of our bad weeds belong to this genus, such as crab grass (P. sanguinale), and barnyard grass (P. Crus-galli), also several food plants, as Indian millet (P. miliaceiiin], fcjonwa millet (P. fruinenfaceum), and Shama millet {). Their importance as forage grasses is very insignificant when the number of species is taken into consideration. This is largely from the fact that the species, as a rule, are not gregarious, and to the fact that they are not well represented in the meadows and prairies of temperate and northern regions. An important forage grass of the warmer regions is, how- ever, guinea grass (P. maximum). Spikelets with one terminal perfect flower, and below this a second flower which m
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