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Fig. 531. Uniola sessiliflora Poir. Eucyc. 8 : 185. 1806. ( U)nula 

 nitida Ell.). Short-stalked Uniola.— A rather slender, wiry 

 perenuial 3.5 to 9 dm. high, with flat, spreading leaves, and sim- 

 ple, rigid panicles 5 to 20 cm. long. Spikelets (a) strongly flat- 

 tened, 6-to8-tiowered, 12 to 16 mm. long, with sharply acuminate- 

 pointed empty glumes 6 to 8 mm. long.— On hummocks in shady 

 swamps near the coast, Georgia to Louisiana. June-October. 



