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Fig. 75. HOMAXOCEWCHRXJS HEXANDRUS (Sw.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 

 777. 1891. {Lcersia hexandra Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 21. 1788.)— A rather 

 slender, usually erect, branching grass 6-12 dm. {2°-4°) high, with narrow, 

 many-flowered, erect panicles 10-15 cm. (4'-6') long. Spikelets (a,&) about 2 mm'. 

 (1") long, acute, keels of the glumes strongly hispid and the margin of the 

 first glume fringed with short bristles. Stamens six.-In swamps and ditches 

 near the coast, North Carolina to Florida and Texas. (In all tropical and 

 many subtropical countries.) May to September. 

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