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Fig. 43. Panicum grossarium L. ; Beal, Grasses N. Am., 2 : 

 116. Jamaica Chab-grass. Apparently an annual, with much- 

 branched, ascending culms 3 to (i dm. long, broad, lanceolate leaves 

 and spreading panicles of a few simple racemes of glabrous spike- 

 lets. Ballast ground, Philadelphia. Adventive. [West Indies.] 

 September. Cultivated in grass gardeu, and apparently valuable. 



