. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Paspalum longipedunculatum Le Conte. Long-stalked Paspalum. Fig. 290. Paspalum longipedunculatum Le Conte, Journ. de Phys. 91: 284. 1820. Paspalum ciliatifolium brevifolium Vasey, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci. 1886: 285. 1886. Stems io'-2l° tall, leafy at the base. Sheaths gla- brous, excepting on the ciliate margin; blades 1-4' long, 2"-4i" wide, lanceo
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Paspalum longipedunculatum Le Conte. Long-stalked Paspalum. Fig. 290. Paspalum longipedunculatum Le Conte, Journ. de Phys. 91: 284. 1820. Paspalum ciliatifolium brevifolium Vasey, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci. 1886: 285. 1886. Stems io'-2l° tall, leafy at the base. Sheaths gla- brous, excepting on the ciliate margin; blades 1-4' long, 2"-4i" wide, lanceolate to linear, glabrous, or shortly appressed-pubescent on the upper surface, ciliate along the margins arid the mid-nerve; peduncles 1-2 from the upper sheath; racemes I. or 2, i'-3' long, more or less curved, the rachis very narrow, more or less flexuous; spikelets in pairs, about I" long, broadly obovate, the first scale 3-nerved, glabrous, the second 2-nerved by the suppression of1 the midnerve, glabrous. Sandy soil, North Carolina and Kentucky to Florida. 4. Paspalum stramineum Nash. Straw- colored Paspalum. Fig. 291. Paspalum stramineum Nash, in Britton, Man. 74. 1901. A tufted branching perennial, with light yellowish green foliage, flat leaf-blades which are appressed-pubescent on the upper surface, and usually pubescent spikelets; culms 8'-3° tall; leaf-sheaths glabrous, excepting on the ciliate margins, the basal ones softly and densely pubes- cent ; blades firm, erect, linear or lanceolate, with a few scattered long hairs in addition to the shorter pubescence on the upper surface, long- ciliate on the margins, 10' long or less, 2j"-s" wide; racemes .il'-4' long, on the main culm usually 2; spikelets in pairs, orbicular, about 1" in diameter, the first scale 3-nerved, pubescent with short spreading glandular-tipped hairs, or some- times glabrous, the second scale glabrous or nearly so, 2-nerved by the suppression of the midnerve. In s
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