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Fig. 619. Elymus imiovatus Beal, Grasses of North America, 

 2 : 650. 1896. ( KJiimun brownei Scribu, & Smith, U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Div. Agros. Bull. 8 : 7, PI. IV.) Brown's Wild Eye.— A rigid, 

 rather slender, erect perennial .5 to 9 dm. high, with short cauline 

 leaves, and densely flowered, pubescent spikes 4 to 10 cm. long. 

 Spikelets 3- to 6-flowcred, 10 to 15 mm. long, with densely pubes- 

 cent flowering glumes 8 to 10 mm. long.— Gravelly or sandy 

 banks, Sonth Dakota, Wyoming, British Columbia, and northward 

 to Alaska. June-September. 



