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Fig. 266. umOLA LAXA (L.) B. S. p. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 69. 1888. (Hokvs 

 Icuus L. Sp. PL 1048. 1753; V. gracilis ilichx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 71. 1803.— A slen- 

 der, glabrous grass 6-9 dm. {2°-S°) high, with long, narrow leaf-blades, and 

 contracted, wand-like nodding panicles 1-5-45 cm. (e'-lS'i long. Sheaths shorter 

 than the internodes; ligule very short; leaf -blades 12-36 cm. (5'-15') long, 2-6 

 mm. (l"-o") wide, usually erect, plane, attenuate into a long tip. Spikelets (a) 

 short-pedicellate, 3 to 6 flowered, about 6 mm. (3") long; empty glumes much 

 smaller than the flowering glumes (5) Avhich are 3-4 mm. (li"-2") long, acumi- 

 nate, spreading in fruit. Palea arched, about two-thirds as long as the glume.— 

 In dry soil, open woods, and banks. Long Island to Florida, west to Kentucky, 

 Tennessee^ and Texa«. June to October. 



