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Fk;. 276. Poabrevifolia Miihl. Solthehn Spear-ghass.— An 

 erect pereunial 3 to (i dm. high, with nnmiug rootstocks, short 

 culm leaves, and a widely spreadiug, few-tiowered panicle. — 

 Wooded river hluft's and the grassy sununits and wooded slopes 

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

 North Carolina and Tennessee. March-May. 



