. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 394 Ordku 155.—GRAMINE^.. 2 O. "%Valteri (Ell). Culms slender, 2f; Ivs. narrow and sheaths glabrous; spikes one-sided, J—1' long, alternate; glumes hispid, pointed; the fis. somewhat pointed, the sterile with 3 stamens. Low grounds. Car. to Fla., and La. July. 3 O. Itirtellus R. & S. Decumbent, branched, ciliate; Ivs. lanceolat
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 394 Ordku 155.—GRAMINE^.. 2 O. "%Valteri (Ell). Culms slender, 2f; Ivs. narrow and sheaths glabrous; spikes one-sided, J—1' long, alternate; glumes hispid, pointed; the fis. somewhat pointed, the sterile with 3 stamens. Low grounds. Car. to Fla., and La. July. 3 O. Itirtellus R. & S. Decumbent, branched, ciliate; Ivs. lanceolate, 1—2' by 4—G"; spikes erect, remote, one-sided, J'long, few in the perfectly simple panicle; pale long-awned, glumes short-awned. Woods, South. Aug.—Oct. 23. SETARIA, Beauv. Bristly Foxtail. Fls. ill cylindiic spikes or spike-lil^e panicles. Spike- lets each subtended by a cluster of awn-like bris- tles (abortive pedicels) forming a bristly involucre. Otherwise as in Panicum. July, Aug. § Bristles rough backward, in pairs, short No. 1 § Bristles rough upward (a) a 4—10 in each involucre No?. 2—4 a 1—.3 in each involucre Nos. 5—7 1 S. vertlcillata Beauv. Spicate pan. 2—3', composed of short divided branchlets seeming in many verticils ; bristles little longer than the spikelets: fruit-pales rough-punctate. Culm 2f. (T) N. Eng. to Car., and W. § 2 S. Klawca Beauv. Bottle G. Spike cylindric, yellowish, 2—4', nearly simple; iu- vol. of 6-10 bristles much longer than the spikelets ; fruit rugous crosswise, some- what triquetrous, blackish. Culm 2—3f. (i) Fields, gardens: common. § 3 S. viridls Beauv. Wild Timothy, (a) Spike cylindric, 1—3', compound, green ; invol. of 4—10 bristles much longer than the spikelets (d, c): fruit-pales striate length- wise and dotted (under a lens). Culm 1—2f. (T) Cultivated grounds, N. § 4 S. Gerniaiiica Beauv. Millet. Bengal G. Spike iiattcned, oblong-cylindric, compound, 3—5' by 9" ; rachis bristly; in
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