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Figure 878. — Paspalum stramineum. Panicle, X 1 ; 

 two views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Type.) 



long; spikelets about 2 mm. long, 

 suborbicular, the glumes often mi- 

 nutely pubescent. Ql (P.chapmani 

 Nash; P. eggertii Nash; P. blepharo- 

 phyllum Nash; P. epile Nash.) — 

 Open ground or open woods, mostly 

 sandy, New Jersey to Florida, Minne- 

 sota, Kansas, and Texas; Honduras 

 and the West Indies. This species is 

 exceedingly variable. Pubescence on 

 foliage and spikelets varies in a 

 single plant. Rather stout, somewhat 

 paler, seacoast plants, with firmer 

 blades scarcely ciliate, are the form 

 described as P. epile. Plants with 

 softly pubescent lower sheaths, and 

 blades but slightly ciliate, are the 

 form described as P. eggertii. The 

 shape of the spikelet varies in a 

 single raceme from elliptic-obovate 

 to suborbicular. The spikelets tend 

 to become rounder at maturity, but 

 both mature and immature are found 

 of both shapes. 



20. Paspalum propinquum Nash. 

 (Fig. 881.) Resembling P. ciliati- 



Figure 879. — Paspalum pubescens. Panicle, X 1; two 

 views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Hitchcock 298, 

 Ga.) 



folium, the blades firmer and nar- 

 rower, the spikelets slightly smaller, 



Figure 880. — Paspalum ciliatifolium. Raceme, X 1; 

 two views of spikelet, and floret, X 10. (Nash 1426, 

 Fla.) 



