No. 5. 
PASPALUM PUBIFLORUM Rupt. 
Plant perennial, coarse, rather glaucous. 
Rootstock creeping, Weanshine, and often rooting at the nodes. 
Culms few in a place, sometimes loosely tufted, ascending or nearly erect, 
secicnlas below, branching, solid, angular below, nearly terete ss smooth, 
18 to 30 inches tall, the lower joints woo 
Leaves of rootstocks rather coarse, loess scales; of culms 3 to 7; sheaths shorts 
than internodes, loose, smooth, often with a few scattered hairs along the upper 
margin; blade flat, 8- to 10-nerved, sparsely ciliate, 3 to 5 lines wide, 4 to 8 inches 
long; ligule membranaceous, ovate, lacerate, 14 lines long, decurrent. 
Inflorescence 3 to 6 narrow, spreading spikes, alternate along the angular axis, 
2 to3 sre long; rachis flat, bearing 2, Bien 4, rows of crowded spikelets in alter- 
nate 
Spikelets broadly oblong or ovate, 1-flowered, 1 to 14 lines long; first glume 
broadly oval or hemispherical, with infolded margins, usually softly-pubescent 
3-nerved, 1} to 14 lines long; second glume broadly oval, flat, with infolded mar- 
gins, nearly smooth, 3-nerved, of the same length; floral glume indurate, ovate- 
long, convex, with infolded margins, smooth, obscurely 3-nerved, 1 line long; 
palet indurated, Nn ovate, flat, with infolded margins, smooth, obscurely 
2-nerved, 1 line 
ain Sales. thick, flat on one side, shiny, dark-brown at maturity, not 
translucent, 1 line long, falling free or with indurated enveloping palet. 
PuaTE V; a, spikelet, side view; b, first empty eae ec, second empty glume; 
d, floral glume; e, palet and stamens; f, pistil. 
Pica 
Common in Texas and extending to southern California. In the Southern — 
States is a form with smooth spikelets. Probably a valuable pasture 
