smm 
FIG. 312. ANDROPOGON GRACILIS Spreng. Syst. 1:284. 1825. Not Presl. 
189. SLENDER BROOM SEDGE.—A slender, erect perennial 3-4 dm. (12-16) 
high, with thread-like leaves 10-20 em. (4’-8’) long and terminal, silky-hairy 
em. (1/2) long. Sessile spikelet (a) 4-6 mm. (2,370 long, with 
to the right in a) densely plumose-ciliate, with white hairs one and a half times 
as loi he p ; ) 1 I 
southern Florida. (West Indies.) June to August. 
