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about 3 mm long. 21 (P. praelongum Nash.) Fields, meadows, and 

 open waste ground, Connecticut to North Carolina and Mississippi, 

 west to Kansas and Texas (fig. 1253). 



34. Paspalum praecox Walt. (Fig. 1254.) Culms erect from short 

 scaly rhizomes, 50 to 100 cm tall; sheaths keeled, glabrous, or the 

 lower villous; blades 15 to 25 cm long, 3 to 7 mm wide, glabrous or 

 nearly so; racemes usually 4 to 6, ascending to arcuate-spreading, 



FIGURE 1253. Distribution of 

 Paspalum circulare. 



FIGURE 1252. Paspalum circulare. Panicle, 

 X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. 

 (Chase 3836, Md.) 



FIGURE 1255. Distribution of 

 Paspalum praecox. 



FIGURE 1254. Paspalum praecox. 

 Panicle, X 1; two views of spikelet, 

 and floret, X 10. (Stone 377, S.C.) 



2 to 7 cm long, the common axis very slender; rachis about 1.5 mm 

 wide, purplish; spikelets usually solitary and paired in each raceme, 

 strongly flattened, suborbicular, 2.2 to 2.8 mm long, the glume and 

 sterile lemma thin and fragile. 2L Wet pine barrens, borders of 

 cypress swamps, moist places in flatwoods, and wet savannas, in the 

 Coastal Plain, North Carolina to central Florida and along the Gulf 

 to Texas (fig. 1255). 



