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Fig. 349. Panicum minus Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22 : 421. 

 P. capillare var minimum Scribn. Bull. Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. 

 7: 44, fig. 39). Small Witch-grass. — A slender annual, rarely 

 more than 3 dm. high, with long-pilose sheaths, narrow, flat 

 leaves and oval or pyramidal, few-flowered panicles 8 to 16 cm. 

 long. Spikelets (a, h, c) about 1.5 mm. long. — Dry, open wood- 

 lands and thickets, New Brunswick southward to Georgia and 

 westward to Wisconsin and Alabama. August, September. 



