MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



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erect or ascending, 10 to 15 cm long, 3 to 6 mm wide, glabrous; 

 oanicle 5 to 9 cm long, the lower branches ascending; spikelets 2.1 

 to 2.2 mm long, papillose-pubescent, sometimes minutely so. _ Autum- 

 nal phase erect or nearly so, the blades becoming loosely involute. 



Figure 1296.— Distribution of 

 Panicum consanguineum. 



Figure 1295. — Panicum consanguineum. Two views 

 of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Type.) 



% — Dry or moist open ground, Mississippi to Arkansas and eastern 

 Texas; Mexico (fig. 1304). 



21. Panicum neuranthum Griseb. (Fig. 1305.) Vernal phase 

 glabrous as a whole; culms 30 to 60 cm tall; blades erect or ascending, 



Figure 1298.— Distribution of 

 Panicum angustifolium. 



Figure 1297. — Panicum angustifolium. Two 

 views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Type.) 



ihe short basal blades few or wanting; panicle 5 to 9 cm long, narrow, 

 the flexuous branches narrowly ascending, the branchlets appressed, 

 the short-pediceled spikelets more or less secund along the branches; 



Figure 1300.— Distribution of 

 Panic u in fus if or me . 



Figure 1299. — Panicum fusiforme. Two views of 

 spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Type.) 



spikelets 2 mm long, finely papillose-pubescent. Autumnal culms 

 erect, about as tall as the vernal phase; blades involute. % — 

 Savannas and open ground, southern Florida; Mississippi (Horn 

 Island); Cuba. 



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