A natural history of British grasses . nd near Thetford, Norfolk; in fields nearLondon. In Hampshire and Surrey. A native of France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium,Holland, Norway, Sweden, north of Africa, and the UnitedStates of America. Stem upright, smooth, and striated, having three or four broad,pointed, ribbed (with marginal dentations) leaves^ and smooth 98 PANICUM CRUS-GALLI. striated sheaths; upper sheath of same length as its leaf; noligule. Joints three. Inflorescence compound-panicled, compact,secund; rachis angular; branches rough. Spikelets almost sessile,in clusters, compo
A natural history of British grasses . nd near Thetford, Norfolk; in fields nearLondon. In Hampshire and Surrey. A native of France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium,Holland, Norway, Sweden, north of Africa, and the UnitedStates of America. Stem upright, smooth, and striated, having three or four broad,pointed, ribbed (with marginal dentations) leaves^ and smooth 98 PANICUM CRUS-GALLI. striated sheaths; upper sheath of same length as its leaf; noligule. Joints three. Inflorescence compound-panicled, compact,secund; rachis angular; branches rough. Spikelets almost sessile,in clusters, composed of two glumes and two florets, one of theflorets neutral. Glumes unequal, inner one considerably thelargest, three-ribbed, and hirsute. Lowest floret barren. Stylestwo. Stigmas short and plumose. Filaments three. Anthersshort, and cloven at either extremity. Length from twelve totwenty-four inches. Koot annual and fibrous. The specimen for illustration was collected in fields at Bat-tersea, by Mr. Joseph Sidebotham, of SI-T. : 99 SETARTA VERTICILLATA. Beatjvois. Hookee and Arnott. Paenell. Koch. Kunth. PLATE XXXI. A. Panicum veriicillatum, Linn^us. J. E. Smith, Knapp. Willdenow. Cuetis. Geaves. Scheadee. Host. Ehehaet, Hull. Hxtdson. Withering. Reichenbach. Pennisetum verticillatum, Beown. Gramen geniculatum, Geeaede. Bauhin. The Reflex Bristle-Grass. Setaria—A bristle. Verticillata—Whorled. Setaeia, Beauvois.—Tlie Bristle-Grass, having a compound almost cylin-drical spike, derives its name from the Latin seta, a bristle. There arethree British species, yet perhaps better known under Linnseuss name ofPanicum. The Rough Panick-Grass of Smiths English doubtful British plant and interesting species, foundonly in cultivated fields in the counties of Middlesex andNorfolk, near London and Norwich. Native of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland,Belgium, North Africa, the United States of America, and Asia, Stem er
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