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Fig. 386. Panicum viscidum Ell. Bot. S. Car. & Ga,, 1 : 123. 

 1817. (P. scoparium Michx. not Lam.). — A rather stout, erector 

 ascending, finally much branched perennial, 6 to 12 dm. high. 

 Leaves rather broad, very acute, those on the primary stem 12 to 

 25 cm. long. Panicle 10 to 15 cm. long, ovate or subpyrarnidal, 

 many-flowered. Spikelets (a, 1), c) 2 mm. long, rounded-obovate, 

 the whole plant, or at least the culm and sbeatbs densely pubes- 

 cent with soft, spreading hairs, and all parts somewhat viscid 

 when fresb. — Low ground, borders of tbickets. etc., from New 

 Jersey and Delaware southward to Florida and westward to 

 Indiana and Texas. June-October. 



