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to 4 mm long, sometimes short-awned, the rachilla joints very short. 

 <% — Prairie, open woods, and sandy soil, Ontario to British Colum- 

 bia, south to Delaware, Missouri, Louisiana, California, and Mexico 



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Figure 542.—.4 Koeleriacristata. Plant, X Vi. glumes and floret, X 10. (Bebb 2862, HI.) B, K.phleoides. 

 Panicle, X 1; glumes and floret, X 10. (Heller 11417, Calif.) 



(fig. 543); widely distributed in the temperate regions of the" Old 

 World. Variable; several American varieties have been proposed, 

 but the forms are inconstant and intergrading and it is not practicable 



