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Fig. 133. Limnodia arkansana (Nutt.); Dewey in Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb., 2: 518 {Greenla arkansana Nutt.; Thurberia 

 arkansana Bentb.). — A slender annual 2 to 6 dm. high, more or less 

 geniculate at tbe lower nodes, with soft, Hat leaves and narrow, 

 loosely flowered panicles 8 to 18 cm. long. Outer glumes sca- 

 brous or pilose.— Shell banks, woods, etc., western Florida to 

 Arkansas and southern Texas. April-June. 



