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blades flat to subin volute, mostly less than 10 cm long, 1 to 3 mm wide; 

 panicle often purplish, condensed, interruptedly spikelike, 3 to 10 cm 

 long, sometimes looser with stiffly ascending short branches; spikelets 

 6- to 12-flowered, 2 to 4 mm long; glumes about 1 mm long; lemmas 

 oblong, 1 to 1.5 mm long, obtuse, the midnerve slightly excurrent; 



Figure 27&.—Eragrostis ciliaris. Plant X; Vz\ spikelet, X 5; floret, X 10. (Nash 2104, Fla.) 



keels of the palea conspicuously stiffly long-ciliate, the hairs 0.5 to 

 0.7 mm long ; grain 0.5 mm long, o —Sandy shores, rocky soil, and 

 open ground, Georgia to Florida and Mississippi; Texas; New Jersey 

 (ballast); West Indies and Mexico to Brazil and Peru (fig. 279); 

 Africa; Asia. Specimens with laxer panicles of more spreading 



