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Fig. 67. Chaetochloa composita Scribn. (Setaria composUa 

 HBK.?). Branching Foxtail. — A stout perennial 6 to 12 dm. 

 high, with broad, flat leaves, and branching, bristly panicles 10 to 

 25 cm. long. Spikelets 3 mm. long ; second glume one-third shorter 

 than the fourth. (No. 3617, A. H. Curtiss.)— Shell islands and keys, 

 sometimes in old pineapple fields, southern Florida. [West Indies.] 

 July-October. 



