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&,. Phragmites Trin. 
Coarse perennial gresses with broad flet blades end usuélly large 
plumelike panicles. Snikelets several-fl owered, the rachilla jointed above 
the glumes end between the florets, densely silky-rillous; glumes lanceolate, 
ecute, the first about half es lone as the second; levrias lone acuminate, 
tTLADTOUS; falee much shorter than the lemma. 
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1. P. communis Trin. —~SCommon reed. Culms erect, as much as 4m. tall, with 
stout creeping rhizomes; sheaths overlapping, glabrous, often with a small 
tuft of hairs at the throet; ligule ciliate, about l ‘a long; blades 
flat, ecuminate; 1-5 cm. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, the mergins appressed- 
ere panicles 15-40 cm. long, densely flowered, the ‘renee ascending, 
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Fogs end wet ground. 
yoy — Cepeland District, Christ 835. 
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