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3. LiEviGATUM. Mull]. Cat. 



P.glabernmuin;culmo I Plant veiy smooth 

 compresso,- spica tere- [ stem compressed; spike 

 li ; spiculis unifloris ; in- I columnar ; spikelets one 

 volucelJis aristis decern. | flowered / involucels 10 



awned, 



^ Root peveimm] ? Stem procumbent, 1—2 feethiffh, much compress 

 ed, lower joints very sliort. Leaves narrow, acute, sli-hth" cliannell 

 ed, very smooth, fiequentlj longer than the stem, margins entire 

 sheaths smooth, compressed, lower one much longer than the joints 

 so that the leaves appear imbricate and distichous. HacM^i pubes 

 cent. FUameMsS. Anthers purple, ^.tifles 2, as lon^ as the coiol 

 la. -Sii^mas feathered, purple. iee</ nearly smootli. 



This species has great affinity to the P. -jaucum. It differs by Its 

 more compressed stesri, its longer leaves, its spikelets generally one 

 flowered, and a corolla so smooth that transverse stria can only be 

 discovered by a good lens. 



ef ^iTIalt wkter ^^ ''''''"^'' ^""^ ^'^'"S^' plentifully,: along tlie margins 

 Flowers through the summer. Smooth Panicum. 



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P.*spica tereti ; invo- ] Spike cylindrical ; in- 

 lucellis bifloris, fascicula- | voluccls two flowered, 



tQ-piIosis ; seniinibus im- hairy, fasciculate ; seeds 

 du!ato-ri * - i .'j ? 



gosis. bp pi. I crossed by undulate 

 *• P- ^^^- \ wrinkles 



Mich. .. ^. _. 



P. alopecurodeum, Walt. p. 7-2. 



but tenerallT maturl t^' "'''''''^ ^"^'^> P^^haps one for eac^. a«n, 

 to Ifo Serai. S '"' '.' '''" "'T' -^"'"^ 8-10, divided .«• 

 Glabrous . X p'xW ^ ' ""' ''J"» ^' *^e flower. Caly.v 3 valve^ 

 anceolat'e tlUd v T ^^^"^^"^«"' "^^te, acute, 3 nervecl -, the n<^ 

 learl^ flat tfth {h!^^"^"^'"' ^""^^^«' ^ "e-'ved ; the interior longer, 

 vlhJd -the 7lJu. ™T^'"' '"^"^^^' ^^"t«' 5 nerved. Crn-olla ^ 

 rugose ' intedo flT T^^'* T '""*'' ""^''"^'^ 5 nerved, transver.elj 



fp.u, "1 ,V. ,^"'^«*^- %^es 2, longer than fh^ rnr..ll». iSff/^ff-"' 



T/iers orano-e-ri.1niiro,l c* ,' "".^ '"'"";' 'ugose. ruawjuii^^. 



featl.ered,*purple! ^^'' ^' ^*^"S^r than" the corolla. ^^'5 



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