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Fig. 61. Panicum nashianum Scribn. sp. nov. (allied to r. 

 (Jrmissiim Trin.). Nash's Panic-GRASS. — A slender and finally 

 much-branched, leafy perennial 1 to 3.5 dm. high, with Hat and 

 rather short leaves, which are ciliate on the margins toward the 

 base, and open pyramidal panicles, the flexnose 1 (ranches widely 

 spreading or reHexed. ( 4,029 Curtiss ( 1893), and 466 Nash (1894). )— 

 Low pine barrens, often in moist ground, near the coast, Virginia 

 to Mississippi. [Brazil.] March-October. 



