This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...or creeping bases, rooting and branching the lower nodes; flowering culms ascending, 0.5 to 1.5 meters high, glabrous, the nod glabrous; sheaths short, glabrous below, usually hirsute toward the summit, especial at the junction with the blade, the margins ciliate; ligule a ciliate membrane abo 0.5 mm. long; blades flat ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...or creeping bases, rooting and branching the lower nodes; flowering culms ascending, 0.5 to 1.5 meters high, glabrous, the nod glabrous; sheaths short, glabrous below, usually hirsute toward the summit, especial at the junction with the blade, the margins ciliate; ligule a ciliate membrane abo 0.5 mm. long; blades flat, 8 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, gradual narrowed from the cordate-clasping base to an acuminate apex, cilia at base, otherwise glabrous, obscurely cross-nerved between the vein the margins scabrous; panicle usually short-exserted, 10 to 25 ci long, one-third to half as wide, the solitary or fascicled branch increasingly approximate toward the summit of the slender angli scabrous axis, usually pilose in the axils, the lowermost branch so! tary and remote, all but the uppermost compound, the branchle somewhat spikelike, rather distant, usually along the lower side the rachis, the axils pilose; spikelets subsessile, clustered, 1.5 tol mm. long, about 0.7 mm. wide, turgid, the first glume nearly half the length of spik let, the second glume and sterile lemma equal, the sterile lemma somewhat inflate subtending a membranaceous palea; fruit 1.4 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, subacute. Several collections of this species were referred in the Revision1 to P. laxum exceptionally robust specimens with cordate blades and turgid spikelets. Distribution. Ditches, banks of streams, moist open or wooded ground, southern Mexico and Cuba to Paraguay. Veracruz: Veracruz, Hitchcock 6582. Mirador, Liebmann 419. C6rdoba, Finck 3, Hitchcock 6435,6457. Zacuapan, Purpus 2159, 2160. Misantla, Purpus 5980. Jalapa, Hitchcock 6666. Fig. 73.--P. boliviense. From type specimen. Fig. 74.--Distribution of P. boliviense. 1 Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 15:116. 1910. Guatemala: Ooban, ..
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