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Fig. 486. Calamagrostis breweri Tliui b. iu Brovrer & S. Wats. 

 Bot. Calif. 2 : 2S0. 1880. Bhewkk's Reed-grass.— A sleuder, 

 densely tufted perennial, 1.5 to 4 dm. liijib, with numerous, seta- 

 ceously involute, basal loaves, short eulni leaves and open, few- 

 flowered panicles 2 to 6 cm. long. Spikclets with nearly equal 

 glumes wliich are 3 to 4 mm. long, the 4-tootbed flowering glume 

 with a small tuft of very short hairs on each side at the base 

 and an exscrted straight awn. — Mountains of California. July, 

 August. 



