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Figure 597. — Sporobolus poiretii. Plant, X X A; spikelet and floret, X 10. (Chase 7043, Fla.) 



numerous branching widely creeping pilose at the throat; blades flat or 

 slender rhizomes (yellowish in dry- becoming involute especially toward 

 ing); culms erect, 10 to 40 cm. tall; the fine point, conspicuously distich- 

 sheaths overlapping, more or less ous, mostly less than 5 cm. long or 



