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Fig. 346. Panicum flexile (Gattinger) Scribn. Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club. 20: 476. 1893. (P. capillare var. flexile Gattinger, Term. 

 Fl. 94. 1887.) Wiry Panic grass. — A rather slender, erect an- 

 nual, 3 to 6 dm. high, branching at the base, with ilat leaves, 

 capillary panicles, and rather distant, acute spikelets (a, h, c), 

 3 mm. long. In both moist and dry sandy soils, Pennsylvania and 

 Michigan, southward to Florida and Mississippi. July-October. 



