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Fig. 341. Panicum prostratum Linn., Sp. PI. 87; Chapm. Fl. 

 8. States, Suppl. GHG. Low Panic-* ;kass. — A slender, creeping, 

 and mucli-brancbcd perennial, with short, ciliate leaves and 

 terminal panicles cumpDsed of 5 to 10 simple racemes. Spikelets 

 (a, h, c) ovate-oblong, glabrous, about 2 mm. long. — Moi.'^t or wet 

 grounds, New Jersey (ballast), Alabama to Florida, and west- 

 ward to Louisiana and eastern Texas. [Tropical countries of 

 botli hemispheres.] September. 



