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Fig. 537. Poaleptocoma Bong, de Veget. ins. Sitch. 170. 1831. 

 Slender Mountain Blue-grass. — A slender, erect perennial, 

 about 3 dm. high, with flat leaves and delicate, open panicles, 4 to 

 8 era. long. Spikelets 3-flowered, about 6 mm. long, with slightly 

 unequal empty glumes (Z») and liuear-lanceolate flowering glumes, 

 which are villous on the keel and marginal nerves beh)w, and 

 webbed at the base. — Wet, boggy places, mountains of Colorado, 

 northward to Alaska. July, August. 

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