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Fig. 378. Panicum laxiflorum Lam. Encycl. 4 : 748. 1797. — 

 A slender, densely tufted perennial about 3 dm. high, with rather 

 long, pale-green, soft leaves and loosely few-floAvered panicles 4 to 

 6 cm. long. Sheaths papillate-pilose with spreading or deflexed 

 hairs. Spikelets (a, 1), c) ovate-elliptical, obtuse, about 2 mm. 

 long. Second and third glumes pubescent. — Dry or moist, open 

 woodlands, Virginia to Florida and westward to Tennessee and 

 Louisiana. March-October. 



