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Fig. 626. Asperella californica (Bol.) Real, Grasses N. Am. 2 : 

 657. 18!)6. { Gijnut Ob- licit urn calif or nicum, lioland. Cat. 35. 1870.) 

 California Bottle-brush.— A stout, erect perennial, 10 to 20 

 dm. high, with hirsute lower sheaths, broad, ll;it leaves, and ter- 

 minal, bearded spikes 15 to 25 ciii. long. Spikclets 1- to 3-flow- 

 ered, witii nearly obsolete empty glumes and strongly hispid 

 flowering glumes terminated in a stout, rough awn nearly as 

 long as the glume itself. — California. 



