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lower elongate; panicles terminal and axillary, slender, mostly not 

 more than 3 cm long, the terminal exserted or partly included, the 



Figure 818.— A, Sporobolus poiretii. Plant, X V 2 \ spikelet and floret, X 10. (Chase 7043, Fla.) B, S. indi- 

 cus. Panicle, X 1; spikelet and floret, X 10. (Leon 867, Cuba.) 



axillary included in the sheaths or slightly exserted, late in the season 

 the sheaths swollen and containing cleistogamous spikelets; glumes 



