. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 284 sinj^le palet [floral glume] of the lower [neutral] flower, resem- bling the upper glume, fulfils its office, and stands opposite the nar- row upper palet of the terete fertile flow- er.'' A. Gray, in Manual. This view places Milium near Panicum. 1. M. effusum L. 1. e. M. trans)iiU vaiiicnm Schur. Enum. PI. Transs. 741 (18G6). An erect tufted perennial, smo
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 284 sinj^le palet [floral glume] of the lower [neutral] flower, resem- bling the upper glume, fulfils its office, and stands opposite the nar- row upper palet of the terete fertile flow- er.'' A. Gray, in Manual. This view places Milium near Panicum. 1. M. effusum L. 1. e. M. trans)iiU vaiiicnm Schur. Enum. PI. Transs. 741 (18G6). An erect tufted perennial, smooth. Fio A 44 —Milium effusum, sp'kelet; h, c, tiorets. throughout, 90-150 cm. high. Sheaths two-thirds the length of the long inter. (Scribner.) nodes; ligule about 3 mm. long; blades thin, flat, 13-20 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide. Panicle ovoid or oblong in outline, 15-18 cm. long, the slender rays in half-whorls of 2-<!, bearing spikelets beyond the middle. Spikelets pale green, finely scabrid, ovoid-oblong. 3 mm. long. Empty glumes 3-nerved; floret elliptical, about mm. long. Grain obcompressed. New Hampshire, Faxon 21 ; Vermont, Pringle, Clark; ]\Iichi- gan, Wheeler for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 208, Beal 4-1, 45, Cooleij, Faricell, Wood. Cold woods. New England, New York, Illinois, and northward; also in northern Europe and Asia. Bentham observes as follows: *' Milium was formerly extended to sever;;! uiuiwned Panicete with only two empty glumes, but it is now reduced to five or six species, all removed from Panicaceai as having the empty glumes persistent below the articulation. Tliey differ from Oryzopsis chiefly in their obtuse absolutely unuwned flowering ; 50. (113). MUHLENBEKGIA Schreb. Gen. PI. 44 (1789). DiJepj/- riim Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 40 (1803). Clomena Beauv. Agrost. 28, /. 7, /. 10 (1812). Tosagris 1. c. 29. t. S. f. 3 (1812). Trichochha 1. c. 2 (1812). Podostvmnm Kunth, Mem. Mus. Par. 2: 72 (1815). J)actylof/ramnia Link, Hort. Berol. 2:248 (18
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