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Fig. 276. Poa brevifolia Mnhl. Southern Spear-grass.— An 

 erect perennial 3 to 6 dm. high, with running rootstocks, short 

 cuhn leaves, and a widely spreading, few-flowered panicle. — 

 Wooded river bluffs and the grassy summits and wooded slopes 

 of mountains, New Jersey to northern Ohio and Illinois, south to 

 North Carolina and Tennessee. March-May. 



