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Fig. 326. Paspalum membranaceum Walt. Fl. Carol. 75. 1788. 

 Not Lain. (P. walterianum Schnltes.) Walter's Paspalum. — A 

 low, creeping, semiaquatic grass, with much branched, smooth 

 stems 1 .5 to 4.5 dm. long, short, flat leaves and 2 to 6 small racemes, 

 1 to 2 cm. long. Spikelets ovate, obtuse, about 2 mm. long, 

 crowded in 2 rows on one side of the broad (2 to 3 mm.), flat 

 racbis. — Wet soil, New Jersey and Delaware, south to Florida 

 and westward to southern Ohio aud Texas. [Cuba.] July- 

 October. 



