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Fig. 60. Paniciim columbianum Scribn. sp. iiov. Amkhican 

 Panic-grass. — A slender, erect, uiuch-branched, glabrous peren- 

 nial, with short (usually 3 to 4 cm. long), lanceolate, ascending, 

 acute leaves, and small-tlowered, diffuse, oblong orsubpyramidal 

 jianicles. Spike-lets about 2 mm. long. Branches tinally erect, 

 numerous, flower-bearing. — Dry, sandy fields, meadows, and open 

 woodlands. New England southward to the Carolinas, and west- 

 ward to Tennessee and Alabama, mostly near the coast; also in 

 California. June-August. 



