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erect or ascending, compressed; blades rather thin, 8 to 10 mm 
wide; racemes 2 to 5, slender, along a short axis, 2 or 3 axillary 
peduncles often produced from the upper node; spikelets glabrous 
or nearly so, 2 to 3 mm long (fig. 120). 
This species is exceedingly variable in habit; in dry ground it 
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sometimes has blades not more 
than 2 or 3 mm wide. 
Moist grassland, fields, partial 
shade, common at low altitudes, 
throughout the West Indies, 
Southern United States to Argen- 
tina; also in the warmer parts of 
the Old World. 
An important pasture grass 
throughout the West Indies. 
Readily propagating by stolons, it 
tends to drive out other species, 
thus becoming dominant in low- 
land pastures. In Cuba this grass 
is called “‘cafiamazo dulce’’, ‘‘cafia- 
mazo de sabana’’, and “‘cafiamazo 
macho.” 
5. Axonopus furcatus (Fliigge) 
finite he., Rhodoras8> 205. 
1906. 
Paspalum furcatum Fligege, 
Monogr. Pasp. 114. 1810. Car- 
olina. 
Anastrophus furcatus Nash, N, 
Amer Mil(ac62). 1912: 
Plants stoloniferous; culms in 
tufts, erect or decumbent at base, 
as much as 1 m tall; blades mostly 
5 to 10 mm wide; glabrous, ciliate 
or even hirsute; racemes 2 at the 
summit of the culm, spreading, 5 
to 10 cm long; spikelets 4 to 5mm 
long, glabrous, acute, the midnerve 
of the glume evident (fig. 121). 
FIGURE 120.—Azonopus compressus. Plant, X 14; two views of spikelet, and floret, x 10 (Combs 413). 
