MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



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Figure 1080. — Lasiacis divaricata. Plant, X l A ; spikelet and floret, X 10. (Curtiss 5530, Fla.) 



nials, with woody culms often clam- 

 bering several meters high into shrubs 

 or trees, the blades firm, flat, usually 

 lanceolate and narrowed into a petiole, 

 the spikelets in an open panicle. Type 

 species, Lasiacis divaricata. Name 

 from Greek lasios, woolly, and akis, 

 point, alluding to the tuft of wool 

 at the tip of the fruit. 



1. Lasiacis divaricata (L.) Hitchc. 

 Tibisee. (Fig. 1080.) Glabrous 



throughout except the margins of 

 the sheaths; culms much-branched, 

 clambering over shrubs to the height 

 of 3 or 4 m., the main culm (cane) 

 strong, as much as 6 mm. in diameter, 

 the main branches often fascicled, 

 the vigorous secondary sterile shoots 

 usually strongly divaricate or zigzag; 

 blades narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 20 

 cm. long, 5 to 15 mm. wide, or larger 

 on vigorous sterile shoots; panicles 



