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Fic. 339. PANICUM SANGUINALE Linn. Sp. Pl. 57. 1758. (Digitaria 
33 Seop.; Syntherisma præcox Walt.; S. sanguinalis Dulac.) CRAB- 
GRA much-branched, leafy annual, more or dise: decumbent and rooting 
at sa 8 nodes. Stems 3-12 dm. (19-49) long; nodes and sheaths usually 
hairy; ligule 2 = (1) long; leaf-blades flaccid. 5-12 em. (2-5) long, 4-8 mm. 
(A) wide, scabrous, sometimes pilose, and usually purple tinged. Spikelets 
(a, b) 2.5-3 mm. RS long, lanceolate, acute, in digitate or subfasciculate 
racemes, which are 5-18 em. (2’-7’) long; first glume very minute; second about 
one-half as long as the spikelet, usually ciliate and 3-nerved; flowering glume 
(c) smooth.—Throughout the United States. (Warmer r temperate regions of 
both hemispheres.) June to September. 
been gps ae weed in the Northern States, is of great | value as & 
forage plant in the So rage 
and a good quality "s hay. In Bohemia, Europe, the grain is used for food. 
Often a troublesome weed in law 
