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Fig. 32. AMPHICARPON PURSHII Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 : 2S. 1835. 

 PURSH'S AMPHICARPOX.— An erect tufted perennial 3-6 dm. (l°-2°) high, 

 with hispid sheaths and leaves and contracted panicles. Fertile spikelets (d) 

 solitary and subterranean, about G mm. (3") long, acute, the outer glumes 

 many-nerved, the inner one becoming indurated in fruit. The spikelets 

 {a,b) of the terminal panicles smaller, about 4 mm. (2") long, and outer 

 glumes 5-nerved.— Pine barrens and cranberry bogs near the coa'st, New Jersey. 

 August to September. 



