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Fk;. 372. Panicum atlanticum Nash, Bull. Tdir. hot. Club, 

 24: 346. 1897. — A slender, erect, imicli-branched pereuuial 3 to 

 5 dm. high, with the culm, sheaths, and erect, linear-lanceolate 

 leaves, papillate-pilose with long, -white, si)reading hairs. Pan- 

 icle 4 to 6.5 cm. l<mg. Spikelets obovate, obtuse, about 2 mm. 

 long, the 9-nerved second and third glumes densely pubescent 

 with short, spreading hairs. — lu opeu woods, JSlainc to ^'irginia. 



