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Fig. 23. PASPAXiUM PASPALOIDES (Michx.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 5 : 29. 1894. {Digitaria paspaloides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 46. 1803; P. elliottii 

 S. Wats.; P. digitaria Poir.) ELLIOTTS PASPALUM.— A soft perennial grass 

 3-8 dm. (12'-30') high, geniculate and more or less creeping at the base, with 

 rather broad, flat, obtuse leaves and slender spikes, 7-10 cm. (3'-4') long, mostly 

 in pairs from slender peduncles. Spikelets {2, 3) about 4 mm. (2") long, lanceo- 

 late acute; empty glumes thinly pubescent, longer than the obtuse flowering 

 glumes (4). A portion of a spike is shown at (2).— Borders of ponds and ditches, 

 and in low pine barrens near the coast, Maryland to Texas. April to August. 



