ad. Cinna L. 
Tall perennials with long open panicles and broad flat blades. 
Spikelet -flovered, disarticulating below the glumes, the rachilla 
produced behind the palea as a minute bristle; glumes nearly equal, 
l-nerved; lemmas about as long as the glumes, d-nerved, short-awned from 
the back just below the apex. 
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1. C. latifolia (Trev.) Griseb. Sweet Reedgrass. -———>Cu.ms single, 
erect, as much as 150 cm. tall; sheaths scaberulous; ligules 4-6 mm. long; 
blades flat, acuminate, rather thin, lax, scabrous on both surfaces, 10-25 
cme long, 8-15 mm. wide; panicles 20-50 cm. long, the branches slender, 
flexuous, naked below; glumes acuminate, scabrous, hispid on the keels, 
3-4 mm. long; awn of lemma nearly obsolete to 1 mm. long. 
Swamps, river banks, and wet places. 
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Peete 
