30 
m n 
3.0 f 
FIG. 326. PA ; r.75. 1788. Not Lam. 
1791. s walterianum Schultes.) WALTER'S PASPALUM. —A low, creeping, 
5-4.5 dm 
at leaves, and 2 to 6 small racemes 1-5 em. (1-2^) long. Sheaths 
what inflated, smooth; ligule about 2 mm. ds long; leaf- blades 1-5 em. (2) 
long, 2-4 mm. (1/-2/) wide, acute, smooth, or Spike- 
lets (b, e) ovate, obtuse, smooth, about 2mm. a lon led in t orowson 
‘one side of the flat rachis (a), which is 2-3 mm. (17-147) wide, elliate-scabrous | 
on margins; outer glumes 5nerved; flowering glume (d) lenticular, 
rounded-obtuse, a little shorter than the outer ones. The e palea is 
by e.—Wet soil, New Jersey and Delaware, south to Florida and westward to 
southern Ohio and Texas, (Cuba.) July to October. 
