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two to three inches long ; spikelets crowded and lapping over 

 each other. It is common on the coast. 



Sand Grass, (triciispis purpurea,') is also found on dry, sandy 

 soils, along the coast ; flowering in August and September. It 

 is acid to the taste, grows from six inches to a foot high, and 

 has numerous bearded joints. 



Orchard Grass, Rough Cocksfoot, (dactylis ir-'lomcrata.') 

 The generic characters are, spikelets several flowered, crowded 

 in clusters, one-sided, panicle dense at the top, branching, 



Fig. 22. 



rig, 21. Orchard Grass. 



