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first glume minute or obsolete on the primary spikelet, one-fourth to 

 one-third as long as the spikelet on the secondary. % (Dimor- 

 phostachys ciliifera Nash; Paspalum cilitferwn Hitchc.) — Moist 

 woods and shaded slopes and banks, occasionally in open ground, 

 mostly at low altitudes, Florida, Louisiana, Texas; Greater Antilles 

 to Venezuela. 



7. Caespitosa. — Culms simple or with a single branch, its leaf some- 

 times hidden in the parent sheath, the inflorescence appearing 



to be axillary; racemes few to several. 

 25. Paspalum blodgettii Chapm. (Fig. 

 1239.) Cespitose, with tough, commonly 

 somewhat swollen and bulblike base, the scales 

 densely pubescent ; culms erect, slender, 40 to 

 100 cm tall ; lower leaves crowded ; blades flat, 

 5 to 25 cm long, mostly 5 to 10 mm wide; ra- 

 cemes usually 3 to 8, slender, remote, 2 to 8 cm 



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Figure 1237— Paspalum 

 monostachynm. Raceme, 

 X 1; two views of spikelet, 

 and floret, X 10. (Type.) 



Figure 1238. — Paspalum langei. Panicle, X 1; two 

 views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Pringle 3091, Mex.) 



long; spikelets about 1.3 mm long, obovate, the glume glandular- 

 pubescent. Ql (P. simpsoni Nash; P. gracillimum Nash.) — Open 

 or brushy calcareous soil, southern Florida; Yucatan, Honduras, 

 Bahamas, and the Greater Antilles. 



26. Paspalum caespitosum Fliigge. (Fig. 1240.) Cespitose, blu- 

 ish green; culms erect, rather wiry, 30 to 60 cm tall; blades flat, 

 folded or involute, 5 to 20 cm long, rarely longer, 4 to 10 mm wide; 

 racemes usually 3 to 5, relatively thick, remote, ascending, 1.5 to 6 

 cm long; spikelets 1.5 to 1.8 mm long, elliptic, sparsely appressed- 

 pubescent to nearly glabrous. % — Mostly in partly shaded 

 humus in limestone soil or rock, sometimes in sandy pinelands; 

 southern Florida, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. 



