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Fk;. 535. Poa debilis Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2 : 459. 1843. Slender 

 Spear-grass. — A slender, erect, smooth perennial 3 to 7 dm. bigh, 

 with rather short, fiat leaves and nodding, few-dowered, open 

 panicles 4 to 12 cm. long. Spikelets 3 to 4 mm. long, 2- to 4- 

 flowered with uneqnal, acute empty glumes (a), broadly obtuse 

 and scarions-tipped dowering glumes which are conspicuously 

 webbed at the base. — lu rocky woodlands, Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick, southward to Pennsylvania and westward to Minne 

 sota. May-.July. 



