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Fig. 417. Aristida spicifonnis Ell. Bot. S. Car. & Oa. 1 : 141. 

 1817. Spike-like Poveuty Gkass. — A stout, erect pereunial, 3 to 

 9 dm. liigb, with rather long, linear leaves and densely flowered, 

 cylindrical, spike-like panicles. Outer glumes much shorter than 

 the flowering out-, which is twisted above to the spreading or 

 divergent awns. The middle awn lunger than the lateral ones. — 

 Moist pine barrens, Georgia and Florida to Mississippi. July- 

 October. 



