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Fig. 363. Panicum lucidum Ashe, Journ. E. Mitch. Sci. Soc. 15 : 

 47. 1898. (P. ramulosum Mchx.f.) A very slender, erect, or re- 

 clining, glabrous perennial 3 to 10 dm. high, with rather short 

 (2 to 5 cm.), flat, acute leaves, and small, spreading panicles, 2 to 

 6 cm. long. Spikelets elliptical-ovate, obtuse, 1.8 mm. long, with 

 the second and third glumes glabrous. — Low woods, New Jersey 

 southward and westward to Texas, common. 



Distinguished from P. sphagnicolum by its smaller and glabrous 

 spikelets. 



