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Fig. 191. Gymnopogon ambiguus (Michx.) B. S. P.; Britton 

 and Brown, 111. Fl., 1 : 178 {O. racemosus Beauv.). Naked Beard- 

 grass.— A loosely tnfted, erect or ascentling perennial 30 to 45 cm. 

 high, with short and broad leaf blades and numerous (fifteeu to 

 thirty), sleuder and widely spreading spikes irregularly scattered 

 along the common rachis.— Dry soil, fields, hillsides, and borders 

 of woods, New Jersey to Missouri, Indian Territory, Texas, and 

 Florida. .July-October. 

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