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Fig. 551. Poa nevadensis Scribii. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 10: 

 66. 1883. Nevada Bi.ue-grass. —An erect, rather stout ijerenuial, 

 with flat leaves and narrow panicles 10 to 25 cm. long. Spikelets 

 lanceolate-oljlong, 3- to 8-flowered, 6 to 12 mm. long, with slightly 

 unequal empty glumes (a) and oblong-elliptical, usually obtuse, 

 flowering glumes, which are 4 to 5 Dim. long and strongly sca- 

 brous on the keel. — Moist soil. North Dakota to British Columbia, 

 and southward to Nebraska and Nevada. May- August. 



