PANU'EiE. 



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rennial rootstocks. Sheaths loii<;er tluin tlie intornodes; li;nrulo, 

 maririns of the sheaths, and the nodes sliort-liairy; bhides nearly 

 smooth, sparingly soft-pubescent, fhit or condui)lieate, 30 cm. long, 

 6 mm. wide. Panicle partially included by the upper sheath. 



Pig. 28.— Ch(Ptium bromoides. Spikelet. (Richardson.) 



15-18 cm. long, rachis and rays triangular and liispid. pedicels 

 clothed with short, stiflF, erect hairs, and separating obliquely near 

 the base. Spikelets rough, compressed, narrowly elliptical, with a 



