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Fig. 31. Paspalum dilatatum Poir. (P. ovatum Nees). Large 

 Water-grass. — A somewhat coarse, leafy perennial, growing in 

 clumps 6 to 15 dm. hiuh, bearing 2 to 10 more or less spreading 

 racemes of hairy spikelets.— In meadows, waste ground, and 

 along ditches, southeastern Virginia to Florida, west to Texas; 

 apparently naturalized. [South America.} July-October. 

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