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Fig. 33. AMPHICARPON FX.ORIDANXJM Chapm. Fl. So. V. S. 572. 1860. 

 FLORIDA AMPHICARPON.— A pale-green, smooth perennial 3-9 dm. (lo-3°) 

 high, from creeping rootstocks, with rigid, flat, linear-lanceolate leaves, and nar- 

 row panicles 10-20 cm. (-I'-S') long. In the terminal panicles the spikelets {1,'J) 

 are oblong, acute, about 6 mm. (3") long, with nearly equal and 5-nerved outer 

 glumes. Fertile spikelets on subterranean branches, much as in AmpMcarpun 

 purshii.—Moii^t pine barrens and sandy shores, Florida (throughout the State). 

 July to September. 



