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to many, mostly 10 to 15 cm long, flexuous, nodding, tawny, feathery; 

 spikelets crowded; lemma ciliate with long silky hairs; rudiment 



Figure 1068.— Chloris andropogonoides. Panicle X 1; florets, X 5. (Chase 6067, Tex.) 



oblong, obliquely truncate, awns of lemma and rudiment about 3 mm 

 long. % — Open sandy soil, southern Florida; West Indies to 

 Paraguay. 



Figure 1069.— Chloris texensis. Panicle, X 1; florets, X 5. (Thurow 8, Tex.) 



11. Chloris cilia la Swartz. (Fig. 1073.) Perennial; culms erect or 

 ascending, 50 to 100 cm tall; leaves not aggregate toward the base, 

 sheaths not much compressed; blades 3 to 5 mm wide, sharply 



