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Fig. 60. Panicum columbianum Scribn. sp. iiov. American 

 PANic-(iHASs. — A slender, erect, imich-hrauched, jiiibesceut or gla- 

 brous pereuuial, with short (usually 3 to 4 cm. long), lanceolate, 

 ascending, acute leaves, and siuall-llowered, dittuse, oblong or 

 subpyraniidal panicles. Spike-lets about '2 niui. loug. Hrauches 

 linally erect, numerous, flower-bearing. — Dry, sandy fields, mead- 

 ows, and o]>en woodlands. New England soutliward to the ("aro- 

 liuas, and westward to Teuuessee and Alabanui, mostly near the 

 coast; also in California. .hine-August. 



