PANICEiB. 



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rennial rootstocks. Sheaths longer tlian the internodes; ligule, 

 margins of the sheaths, and the nodes short-liairy ; blades nearly 

 smooth, sparingly soft-pnbescent, flat or conduplicate, 30 cm. long, 

 5 mm. wide. Panicle partially included by the upper sheath. 



Fig. 28. — Chatium bromoides. Spikelet. (Richardson.) 



15-18 cm. long, rachis and rays triangular and hispid, pedicels 

 clothed with short, stiff, erect hairs, and separating obliquely near 

 the base. Spikelets rough, compressed, narrowly elliptical, with a 



