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Fig. 173. Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Willd. Freshwater 

 CoRD-GKAss. — A Stout, erect grass 6 to 18 dm. high, with un- 

 hranched, smooth culms from strong, scaly, creeping rootstocks 

 long, tough leaf blades, and five to twenty spikes, forming a ter- 

 minal panicle. — River Itanks and lake shores, also brackish coast 

 marshes, Maine and Nova .Scotia to Assiuiboia and Oregon, south 

 to New Jersey, western Tennessee, Texas, and Colorado. July- 

 October. 



