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Fig. 229. Phragmites vulgaris (Lam.) B. S. P. {P. communis 

 Trin. ; J r undo vulgaris Lam. ; A. phragmites L. ). Common Reed.— 

 A tall, stout, perennial grass, -with stout, creeping rootstocks, 

 numerous broad, attenuate-pointed leaves, and a large ovoid- 

 pyramidal, purplish, terminal panicle.— Margins of lakes and 

 rivers and in brackish coast marshes, almost everywhere in the. 

 United States and southern British America. [Widely distrib- 

 uted in temperate regions of both hemispheres.] August-October. 



