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BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
fertile lemma chartaceous-indurate , typically obtuse, the nerves 
obsolete, the margins inrolled over an inclosed palea of the same tex- 
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Fig. 1387.—Paspalum laeve. 
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two views of spikelet and fertile floret, x 10 
ture, a lunate line of thinner texture at the back just above the base 
the rootlet protruding through this at germination 
