. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE GRAMINE^. 229. a. Italiaa Millet, b. Pannioled Millet. by each ear or pannicle. From tWs great num- ber of grains, amounting to a thousand {milk,') tlie name of the plant is supposed to be derived. The Italian millet is without doubt a native of India, where it is called congue. The stalk is a jointed reed, with a long, broad, amplexial
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE GRAMINE^. 229. a. Italiaa Millet, b. Pannioled Millet. by each ear or pannicle. From tWs great num- ber of grains, amounting to a thousand {milk,') tlie name of the plant is supposed to be derived. The Italian millet is without doubt a native of India, where it is called congue. The stalk is a jointed reed, with a long, broad, amplexial leaf, proceeding from each joint. It is in height about three or four feet, and terminates in a compact spike of an oval form, about nine inches long. The numerous grains adhere but slightly to the husks, and are easily sliakeu out; the seeds are of various colours. The Italians make a sort of coarse brown bread from the flour of these seeds; but the principal use of them is for feeding poul- try. The leaves and stalks are used as fodder for cattle, and are also made into brushes. The German variety of millet, Sitaria Germanica, is similar to the Italian, but rather more diminu- tive. Sorghum nilgare, or pannicled millet, (fig. 5.) goes under different names in the different coun- tries where it is cultivated. In India it is called jovaree; in Egypt and Nubia dhonrra; while in our West Indian colonies it has received the name of Guinea corn, either because the seed was first conveyed thither from the western coast of Africa, or, as some persons have affirmed, because of its extensive use in feeding the Afri- can negroes throughout those colonies. The height to which this plant attains varies accord- ing to the soil and culture. In Egypt its growth seldom exceeds five or six feet, while Burck- hardt speaks of the stalks of dhourra as being sixteen or twenty feet long. The leaves are thirty inches long, and two inches wide in the broadest part. The flowers, when they first come
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