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the second glume, about as long as the chestnut-apiculate fruit 
(fig. lil). 
Sandy woods and open ground, southeastern United States, West 
Indies, and Central America. 
BauaAMAs: Andros, Brace 4882. 
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Cusa: La Grifa la Catolina, Wright 3884. Laguna Santa Barbara, 
Ekman 18116. Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 23264. Matanzas, Ekman 
in 1923. Baragua, Aitchcock 23385. Mordazo, Ekman 17026. 
Manacas, Léon 9289. 
Hartt: Hinche, Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 146. Pétionville, Ekman 
H 1388, H 1747. Port-au-Prince, Ekman1991. Gros-Morne, Ekman 
H 4920. 
New Providence, Britton and Brace 
Dominican Repusuic: Constanza, Tuerckheim3459 ; Ekman H 13904. 
Santiago, Hkman H 16377. Sanchez, Ekman H 15942. Moncidn, 
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FIGURE 111.— Digitaria villosa. Plant, <1; FIGURE 112.—Digitaria panicea. Plant, X1; 
spikelet and floret, X 10 (Curtiss 5300). spikelet and floret, X 10 (Tracy 9058). 
Ekman H 12637. Punta Icacos, Ekman H 15785. Azua, Ekman 
H 13509. Without locality, Wright, Parry, and Brummel 622. 
Puerto Rico: Laguna Tortuguero, Britton, Cowell, and Brown 3858. 
San Juan, Chase 6784. Campo Alegre, Chase 6806. 
9. Digitaria panicea (Swartz) Urban, Symb. Antill. 8: 23. 
1920; Fernald, Rhodora 22: 103. June, 1920. 
Milium paniceum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 24. 1788. Jamaica. 
Agrostis jamaicensis Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Suppl. 1: 258. 1810. 
Jamaica. 
Axonopus paniceus Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 12, 154. 1812. 
Syntherisma paniceum Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 152. 1912. 
More slender than D. villosa, probably annual; blades folded or 
involute, flexuous, about 1 mm wide; racemes mostly 1 to 3, erect, 
5 to 20 cm long, usually 10 to 15 cm, very slender, loosely flowered; 
spikelets about 1.5 mm long, the capitellate hairs rather stiff and 
appressed (fig. 112). 
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