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Fig. 449. Muhlenbergia parviglumis Yasey, Contrib. Nat. Herb. 

 3 : 71. 1892. SMALL-(iLrMEDDKOr-sKKD. — A slender, ereftperon- 

 uial 3 to 6 dm. liigh, ofteu branching, with rather rigid, narrow 

 leaves and narrow panicles 8 to 14 cm. long. Spikelets about 3 mm. 

 long, wilh minute, nearly equal and obtuse empty glumes (a), one- 

 fourth ti) one-fifth as long as the narrow, sharply two-toothed 

 flowering glume, which bears a slender awn between the teeth 12 

 to 20 mm. long. — Texas. September, October. 



