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Fig. 344. Panicum ciliatissimum Buckl. Buckl. Prel. Eep. 

 Geo!, and Agr. Surv. Tex. 4. 1866. Yasey, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. 

 Bot., Bull. 8:28. 1889. Indian Wheat. Carpet grass.— A 

 creeping, much branched, leafy perennial with upright flowering 

 stems 1 to 3 dm. high and narrow few-flowered panicles 2 to 4 cm. 

 long. Spikelets (a, b) about 3.5 to 4 mm. long, with the second 

 and third glumes densely ciliate-hairy near the margins. — Low 

 grounds, southern Texas. May. 



This grass is locally known as carpet grass. The extensively 

 creeping, short-jointed, and leafy stems of this grass suggest a 

 close resemblance to Bermuda grass. 



