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Fig. 433. Stipa bloomeri Boland. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 : 

 168. 1870. (6. si&imaThurb., not Lam.) Bloomer's Stipa.— A 

 slender, densely ciespitose perennial 3 to 9 dm. high, with long, 

 narrow or involute leaves and more or less open panicles 12 to 24 

 cm. long. Spikelets 8 mm. long, empty glnmes (a) acute, one- 

 fourth longer than the hairy flowering glume {h). Awn 12 to 18 

 mm. long. — California and Montana. 



