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Fig. 283. PANICULARIA PALLIDA (Torr.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 783. 

 1891. { Windsoria pallida ToTT. Cat. ^.Y. 91. 1819; Glyceria pallida Trin. Gram. 

 Suppl. 57. 1836.) PALE MANNA-GRASS.— A perennial, with slender stems 

 3-9 dm. (10-3°) long, ascending from a more or less decumbent base, and lax, 

 few-flowered panicles 7-15 cm. (3'-6') long, with ascending branches. Sheaths 

 smooth; ligule 2-4 mm. (l"-2") long; leaf-blades 5-15 cm. (2'-6') long, 2-4 mm. 

 (l"-2") wide, scabrous, acute. Spikelets rather narrowly oblong, 6-8 mm. 

 (3"-4") long, loosely 4 to 9 flowered; empty glumes (o) ovate, the second 

 3-nerved, about 2 mm. (1") long, exceeding the 1-nerved first one; flowering 

 glumes (6) 2-3 mm. (l"-li") long, minutely dentate at the obtuse apex, 

 distinctly 7-nerved.— Bogs, banks of streams and ponds. Cape Breton to Ontario, 

 south to Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and Indiana. June to August. 

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