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Fig. 26. PASPALUM SETACEIJM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 43. 1803. SLENDER 

 PASPALUM.— A slender, erect, or ascending native perennial, usually about 

 6 dm. (2°) high, with narrow, flat, hairy leaves, and slender, small-flowered 

 spikes, the terminal one ]ong-peduncled,5-10 cm. (2'-4') long; spikelets (h,c) in 

 pairs in two rows, short-pediceled, ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm. (r')long: outer glumes 

 finely pubescent and glandular-spotted.— Dry, sandy fields and pine barrens, 

 Massachusetts to northeastern Nebraska, Texas, and Florida. April to October. 



