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what appressed-villous; blades stiffly ascending, long-acuminate, 8 
to 12 cm long, 4 to 8 mm wide, the lowermost shorter and broader; 
panicles 4 to 10 cm long, loosely flowered, the branches at anthesis 
widely spreading, often reflexed; spikelets 2.5 to 3 mm long, autum- 
nal phase stiffly ascending or somewhat topheavy-reclining, the 
blades flat, rather thin, and papery (fig. 256). 
Sandy woods, southeastern United States; Cuba; Puerto Rico; 
Nicaragua. 
Cua: Isla de Pinos, Curtiss 406; Britton and Wilson 14305. 
Puerto Rico: El Yunque, Britton 
Lo 7628. 
65. Panicum arenicoloides Ashe, 
Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 16: 
89. 1900. North Carolina. 
Pamcum orthophyllum Ashe, Jour. 
Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 16: 90. 
1900. North Carolina. 
Vernal phase similar to that of P. 
angustifolium; spikelets about 2.5 mm 
FIGURE 256.—Panicum angustifolium. Two long. Autumnal phase similar to that 
views of spikelet, and floret, X 10 (type). of P. angustifolium, but the blades 
soon involute (fig. 257). 
Sandy pine woods, southeastern United States; Cuba; Guatemala; 
Honduras. 
Cupa: Sierra de Nipe, Ekman 15189. 
66. Panicum neuranthum Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 232. 1866. Cuba, 
Wright 3453. 
Vernal culms tufted, stiff, erect, glabrous, 30 to 60 cm tall; sheaths 
glabrous; blades erect or ascending, glabrous, 10 to 15 em long, 3 to 5 
mm wide; panicles narrow, 5 to 9 cm long, the branches narrowly 
ascending; spikelets 2 mm long, glabrous, not much attenuate at 
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FIGURE 257.—Panicum arenicoloides. FIGURE 258.— Panicum neuranthum. 
Two views of spikelet, and floret, Two views of spikelet, and floret, 
x 10 (type). x 10 (type). 
base. Autumnal phase similar to the vernal, but the blades shorter 
and involute (fig. 258). 
Savannas and open ground, southern Florida to Mississippi; 
Bahamas; Cuba. 
e Ta New Providence, Britton and Brace 599 (Field Mus. 
eiloy,))- 
Cusa: Remates, Ekman 11182. Yaguaramas, Ekman 18395. 
Sabana del Guani, Fernando 488. Mordazo, Léon 9245. Baracoa, 
Wright 3453 in part. 
