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usually glabrous on the upper surface and puberulent beneath; 
panicles 3 to 6 cm long; spikelets 2 mm long, glabrous or puberulent. 
Autumnal phase geniculate-spreading, with fascicles of short branches 
(fig. 277). 
Sandy pine woods, southeastern United States and British Hon- 
duras; Cuba, Hispaniola. 
Cupa: La Grifa, Ekman 11261. Lagunillas, Ekman 13808. Sabalo, 
Ekman 11427; Perez and Léon 15094. Damuyji, Ekman 10952, 11022. 
San Claudio, Ekman 10543. Banao Mountains, Léon 5406. Sierra 
Maestra, Ekman 1634, 14674, 15290, 16111. Bayamo, Hkman 5064. 
Eastern Cuba, Wright 3460. Isla de Pinos, Britton and Wilson 14226, 
14747, 15379: Ekman 12026, 12161. 
FIGURE 278.—Panicum scoparium. Plant, X 1; two views of spikelet, and floret, X 10 (McGregor 212). 
Dominican Repusuic: Lagunas de Cenobi, Valeur 4. Constanza, 
Tuerckheim 3321; Ekman H 14094. Moncion, Ekman H 12704. 
86. Panicum scoparium Lam., Encycl. 4: 744. 1798. Carolina. 
Vernal phase grayish olive-green, velvety pubescent throughout 
except as noted; culms erect or ascending, usually geniculate at base, 
80 to 130 cm tall, the nodes villous with reflexed hairs, a glabrous 
viscid ring below; sheaths glabrous on the back toward the summit, 
the surface here viscid when fresh; ligule 1 mm long; blades 12 to 20 
cm long, 10 to 18 mm wide; panicles 8 to 15 cm long, the branches - 
with viscid blotches; spikelets about 2.5 mm long, papillose-pubescent. 
Autumnal phase leaning or spreading, branches from the middle 
oe finally forming flabellate fascicles with much reduced blades 
¢, 278). 
see or damp soil, southeastern United States; Cuba to Puerto 
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