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Fig. 366. Panicum dichotomum Liun. Sp. PI. 58. A slender, 

 smooth, and liually nnich liranched aliovo, somewhat wiry peren- 

 nial, 2 to 6 dm. high, with jiale-green, spreading leaves 4 to 8 cm. 

 long, and open panicles. Lateral ]>aiiicles small and few-lloweied. 

 .Spikelcts (, h, c) oblong-elliptical, nearly 2 mm. long, glabrous. 

 The later growth of tliis sjjecies has the aspect of a little tree. 

 Dry thickets and open woodlands, New Ycirk to Nebraska and 

 sontliw ard ti> the Gulf of Mexico. May-October. 



