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Fix. G4. AVater Hair Grass. 



Fig. 65. Downy Oat Grass. 



Wild Oat Grass, Whitp: Top, (clanthonia spicata,} is com- 

 mon in dry, sunny pastures, witli a stem oiie foot high, slender, 

 with short leaves, narrow sheaths, bearded ; panicle simple, 

 spikelets seven flowered, lower palea broadly ovate, loosely 

 hairy on the back, longer tlian its awl-shaped teeth — perennial. 

 Flowers in June. It is called white top in some localities, but 

 is not the grass most commonly known by that name — the 



agrostis alba. 



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