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Fic. 327. PASP. BOSCIANUM Flügge, Monog. 170. 1810. (P. pur- 
purascens El. eum seg virgatum Walt., not inn. y: pape 5 
A stout perennial, with ascending, | m. (29-39 h, long, 
flat leaves, and numerous, usually purple-flowered racemes 2-6 em. pea long. 
crowded near the summit of the eulm orits branches. Sheat ths lax. 8 
longer than the internodes; leaf-blades 15-45 c m. (6-180) long, 6-12 mm. (3'-6^) 
wide, scabrous on the margins. Spikelets (b, c) ‘glabrous, crowded, a on 
obovate, obtuse, 2 mm. (1^ 7) Jong; empty g h, 5-n 
smooth; very d 
as is also the palea (e). —Low woodlands and Pues grex es, North Carolina ii 
Tennessee to Florida, westward to Mississippi and Louisiana. July to 
tember. 
