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Fig. 61. Panicum nashianum Scribn. sp. nov. (allied to P. 

 demissum Trin.). Nash's Panic-grass. — A slender and finally 

 muck-branched, leafy perennial 1 to 3.5 dm. high, with flat and 

 rather short leaves, which are ciliato on the margins toward the 

 base, and open pyramidal panicles, the flexnose branches widely 

 spreading or reflexed. (4,029 Cnrtiss (1893), and 466 Nash (1894).)— 

 Low pine barrens, often in moist ground, near the coast, Virginia 

 to Mississippi. [Brazil.] March-October. 



