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Fig. 61. Panicum nashiauiim Scribn. sp. nov. (allied to P. 

 demi8sttm Trin.). Nash's Paxic-ghass. — A slender and finally 

 mnch-l>ranched, leafy perennial 1 to 3.5 dm. high, -with Hat and 

 rather short leaves, which are ciliate on the margins toward the 

 base, and open pyramidal panicles, the flexnose branches widely 

 spreading or reflexed. (4,029 Curtiss (1893). and 466 Nash (1894).)— 

 Low pine barrens, often in moist ground, near the coast, Virginia 

 to Mississippi. [Brazil.] March-October. 



