NATURAL HISTORY. 



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two to three inches long ; spikelets crowded and lapping over 

 each other. It is common on the coast. 



Sand Grass, (tricuspis 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. 



OiiCHAUD Grass, Rough Cocksfoot, (^dactijUs i'-hmcrnta.} 

 The generic characters are, spikelets several flowered, crowded 

 in clu.stors, one-sided, panicle dense at the top, branching, 



Fig. 22 



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Fig. 21, Orchard Grass. 



