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Fig. 574. Festuca obtusa Spreng. Mant. Fl. Hal. ;U. 1807. 

 ( F. .v7iorHiKuuth,Woocl's Class Book of Botany, 794. 1861.) Short's 

 Fkscue. — A rather stout, erect, glabrous pcreiuiial 6 to 12 dm. 

 liigh, ■with Hut leaves aiul rather narrow, nodding panicles 8 to 

 It) cm. long. Spikclets l)roadly obovate, .S- to 6-llowored, 5 to 6 

 mm. long, with the flowering glumes about I imn. long. — Op«'n 

 woods anil thiclvcts, Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, Kansas, 

 Mississiiipi, and 'i'exas. July, August. 



