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Fig. 279. Graphephorum melicoideum (Michx.) Beauv. — A 

 rather slender, erect, pale-green, cii'spitose perennial 3 to Gdni. high, 

 with flat leaves and loosely flowered, nodding panicles 7 to 14 cm. 

 long. — Rocky or gravelly river shores, low woods (sometimes pine 

 woods), etc., Anticosti IsLind to Vermont, Michigan, and North- 

 west Territory. August, September. (Allied to Trisetum.) 



