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Fig. 39. PANICTJM GRACILLIMUM Scribn. Bui. Torr. Bot. Club, 23 : 146. 

 1896. {Synthcrisma gracilliina, Nash, ibid, 25 : 295. 1898.) SLENDER PAN- 

 ICUM.— A slender perennial 3-9 dm. (10-3°) high, with very narrow, elongated 

 leaves, and small, glabrous spikelets (a, b, c) , racemose along the main axis and 

 its branches, Avhich are approximate near the apex of the culm. Empty glumes 

 two (the first wanting), the rounded obtuse second glume one-fourth to one- 

 half as long as the fourth, the 5-nerved acute third glume nearly as long as 

 the striate, dark brown flowering glume (d). — High pine lands. Lake County, 

 Florida. (1192 Nash.) July. 



Of no agricultural value. 



