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Fig. 123. SPOROBOX,XJ3 FJLORIDANUS Chapm. Fl. So. U. S. 550. I860.— A 

 rather stout, erect perennial G-12 dm. (2'=-4°) high, with long, narrow, flat leaves 

 and diffuse panicles 2.-5-5 dm. (10-20') long. Pedicels capillary. Spikelets (a) 

 about 4 mm. {2") long, purplish; empty glumes unequal, broadly lanceolate, 

 acute, the first about two- thirds as long as the spikelet; flowering glume and 

 palea (shown at 6) smooth and nearly equal. — Moist pine barrens near the 

 coast. North Carolina to western Florida. July to September. 

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