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Fig. 109. Muhlenbergia schafFneri Founi ; Beal, Grasses N. 

 Am., 2: 239. — A low, cii'spitose, branching annual 2 to 10 cm. 

 high, witli short leaves and simple, spike-like panicles. Awn of 

 the flowering glume 1 to 7 lines long. — " Dry, gravelly patches of 

 thin soil," mountains of Arizona and New Mexico. [Mexico.] 

 September. 



