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Fig. 353. Panicum divaricatum Linn. Am. Acad., 5 : 302. (P. 

 latifolium Linn. Sp. PI. in part.) Small Cane. — A coarse, woody, 

 bamboo-like perennial, reclining or climbing over bushes, with 

 usually numerous, short and spreading, flower-bearing branches 

 at the nodes. Leaves lanceolate-acute; panicles simple, few- 

 flowered. Spikelets (a, 6) swollen, about 4 mm. long. Glumes 

 tipped with a tuft of hairs. — Dry woods and thickets, southern 

 Florida [West Indies, Mexico, and tropical America]. March- 

 September. 



