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Fig. 49. PANICUM VERRUCOSUM Muhl. Gram. 113. 1817. WARTY PANIC- 

 GRASS.— A slender, branching perennial, 3-9 dm. {1°-Z°) high, with flat 

 leaves and few-flowered spreading panicles 7.5-20 cm. {3'-8') long. Spikelets 

 {1, 2) acute, about 2 mm. (1") long, with the second and third glumes strongly 

 tuberculate-roughened, or verrucose, the fourth or flowering glume (5) abruptly 

 sharp pointed, smooth.— Low, rich woodlands, mostly near the coast, New 

 England to Florida, westward to Tennessee and Louisiana. May to October. 



Of no recognized agricultural value. 



