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Fig. 38. Panicum serotinum (\Yalt.) Triii. (Sytitheri87na &ero- 

 tina Walt.; iJu/itaria seroiina Mx.). Littlk Ckah-ijhass. — An 

 extensively cret-pinj^ annual or biennial, with flat, liairv leaves, 

 and slender spikes digitate at the apex of the ascending onlnis, 

 which are 1 to 3 dm. high. — Low, sandy ground, roadsides, pas- 

 tures, Mild cultivated fields near the coast, Delaware to Missis- 

 sippi; on ballast at Philadeli)hia. June-August. 



