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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...the second, by its smaller size, more erect culms, and smaller panicles, with shorter branches. 52. P. proliferum, Lam.--Annual. Culms usually thickish, often succulent, branching, geuiculate at the decumbent or procumbent base, 1 to 3 feet long, glabrous; leaves linear, G to 12 inches long, sheaths flattened, glabrous, ligule ciliate; panicles termiiual and lateral, 4 to 12 inches long, the long, slender, primary branches at length spreading and diffuse; spikelets 1 to 1A lines long, pale green, sometimes purplish, appressed, short pedicelled, lower glume broad, obtusish, about one fourth as long as the spikelet, perfect flower a little shorter than the spikelet. Damp places, Maine to Texas. (-) Var. geniculatuui (P. geniculatum, Ell.).--Culms 3 to 6 feet high, succulent, sometimes nearly an inch thick at the base, bent and branching at the joints, leaves sometimes 2 feet long and G to 10 lines wide; sheaths much inflated when young, sometimes a little hairy at the base; panicle sometimes 2 feet long, very diffuse. A valuable grass. Southern States to Texas. 53. P. miliaceum, Linn.--Culms 2 to 4 feet high, erect, branched, pubescent; sheaths loose, striate, hirsutely pubescent; leaves flat, linear-lanceolate, G to 10 inches long, 4 to 8 lines wide, smoothish above, sparsely pubescent below; panicle oblong, nodding, G to 10 inches long, branches verticillate, erect-spreading (not diffuse), solitary or iu pairs, angular, hispid, or scabrous; spikelets ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 2 lines long, lower glume broad, very acuminate, five-nerved, about one-half as long as the spikelet, the third glume seven to nine-nerved, a little longer than the oval, acute, biconvex, perfect flower. Cultivated, and rarely escaped from cultivation. Valuable...
