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Fig. 63. Panicum colonum L. Jingle Rice. — An erect or 

 ascending, more or less branching animal 3 to 6 dm. high, wiht 

 flat leaves and five to ten, densely flowered, one-sided spikes, 

 1 to 3 cm. long, racemose along the main axis. — Ditches and low 

 ground, Southeastern Virginia and Tennessee to Florida, Texas, and 

 southern California. [Widely distributed in tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of the Old World.] June-October. 

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