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Fig. 269. Dactylis glomerata L. Orciiai;d-grass.— A coarse, 

 erect grass 9 to 12 dm. high, forming dense tufts, -with long, flat 

 leaf blades, and spikelets crowded in dense, one-sided clusters at 

 the ends of the panicle branches. — Extensively naturalized in 

 fields and ^Yaste ground, New Brunswick to South Carolina, west 

 to Manitoba, Idaho, and Colorado, [Europe.] May-August. 



