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Sea Lyme-grass. — A stout, 



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Fig. 301. Elymus aienarius L. 

 erect perennial 6 to 12 dm. liigli, with extensively creeping j-oot- 

 stocks, ratluT iirm, Hat, sharp-pointed leaves and terminal, usually 

 densely tiowered .si»ikes S to 25 cm. long. Glumes usually villous. — 

 In maritime sands, Greenland and Lahrador to Maine; Alaska to 

 California and on the shores of the Great Lakes. [Europe and 

 Asia.j July, August. 



