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Fig. 37. Panicum lineare Krock (Panicum glabrum Gaud.; 

 Syntherwma linearis Nash). Smooth Crab-grass. — A slender, 

 glabrous annual 1.5 to 3.5 dm. high, with culms which are much 

 branched below, Hat leaves, and 2 to 6 slender diverging spikes. — 

 Naturalized in waste and cultivated laud: Nova Scotia to Ontario 

 and SouthDakota, south to Florida and Texas. [Europe.] Angust- 

 October. 



